On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Jef Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/8/30 Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)volny.cz>
>
> I hope no software is still doing this - that was idiotic 10 years
> ago, let alone now. (The purpose of the seek is to detect drives that
> can support only "double density", i.e. 360K, 5.25" disks, not
"high
> density", i.e. 1.2M disks. It doesn't do anything useful for 3.5"
> drives.)
bah you 3.5 inch floppy elitists!!!!!! I have an original wolfenstein 3-D
on 5.25 '' floppy...its its original sleeve...that I still use. How dare
you suggest that I give up my 5.25 inch floppy. Its actually "floppy"
unlike those hard plastic 3.5 inch cases.
I wouldn't dare to say anything
against a Wolfenstein 3-D medium.
That's fine, any 5.25" floppy _disk_ is fine.
The seek is there to detect the double-density _drive_ that was last
shipped in PC XT: PC AT already had a high-density drive. Wikipedia
tells me that the seek is there to detect hardware that became
obsolete in 1984.
Mirek