Posted By
Hans
on 2012-06-02
16:02:12
|  Floppy disc usage
I still keep a stack of 5.25" floppy diskettes which I used in the early PC era (MS-DOS 3, etc.)
Does anybody know whether these floppies could be used in conjunction with a 1551 / 1541 ?
The floppies have been formatted under M$-DOS, and there's even something M$ stuff written to them. I can't recall what it was -
I abandoned that PC in 2000 or 2001.
Any comments are thankfully appreciated.
Regards,
Hans.
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Posted By
C16 Chris
on 2012-06-02
16:27:30
 | Re: Floppy disc usage
As used in ms-dos calculator HD disks for Commodore computers and were DD you can not use this disk in a 1541/1551
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskette
Da für ms-dos Rechner HD Disks verwendet wurden und für Commodore Computer DD kannst du diese Disk nicht in einer 1541 / 1551 verwenden
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskette
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Posted By
Hans
on 2012-06-02
16:33:59
| Re: Floppy disc usage
Chris --
Thank you for the immediate information! I wasn't aware of the HD/DD issues.
Vielen Dank für die schnelle Aufklärung! Den Unterschied DD/HD wußte ich nicht mehr.
Regards / M f G
Hans.
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2012-06-03
08:05:34
 | Re: Floppy disc usage
That's not all true... HD discs were required for 1.2MB drives, however, these were not very common. Most PCs (XTs) from that era had 5 1/4" drives for 2S/DD discs (360kb).
I had a Commodore MS-DOS 3.2 floppy disc (came with a PC I) which was a 2S/DD and it worked just fine in my 1551. I used many discs that came from PCs. Just make sure, they are not HD (in fact, these won't work properly in 1551 drives. Some 1541-II drives do format them but it's not recommended because data loss is almost guaranteed. This has been discussed here, too.).
So if you don't need what's on the PC discs just format them. It won't hurt your floppy drive. If the drive stops with an error message or retries endlessly while formatting it's either an HD disc or faulty in some other way.
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