Help with 3B2 Floppy Drive

Dave Levenson dave at westmark.UU.NET
Sun Mar 11 11:24:00 AEST 1990


In article <940 at white.qtp.ufl.edu>, taylor at qtp.ufl.edu (Charles Taylor) writes:
> 
> I've got a 3B2/300 running System V version 2 release 2.  and I'm having
> trouble formatting floppy disks.  Sometimes the format just fails, says an
...
> I have tried both high density and double density floppies - it doesn't seem
> to make much difference.


The floppy drive on the 3B-2 is neither high density nor
double-density.  It's quad-density (720 kbytes).  That kind of media
is about as frequently-found as a 3B-2 computer outside of AT&T, but
that's what they use!

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