Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

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From: <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?


> Once it started to be two drives of different size, which couldn't be rearranged inside the case, the whole thing started to cause trouble. 

Sorry it caused you so much trouble and you still have the scars; most of us managed somehow with long enough 4-connector cables and/or edge<>header adapters.

But you're right; the IBM engineers should have anticipated 3.5" drives, unusual case designs, etc., and the trouble this would cause you.

If you really wanted to and didn't mind running the motors concurrently, it was a simple enough mod to one of the drives to let you do what you insist is the "better way", i.e. selecting drives with the DS jumpers instead of position.

Of course your method would have been more difficult when drives removed select jumpers altogether...