dave@galaxia.zone1.com ("David H. Brierley") (01/16/88)
I have been going through the info posted by cmv@looney and the article in Mini-Micro Systems that he referenced and I have a question. In the article in MMS there are listings for quite a few 3.5 inch disks as well as the listings for the 5.25 inch disks. I know that the drive in the machine is 5.25 and all of the drives referenced by cmv@looney are 5.25 inch. Is there any reason why I can't plug in a 3.5 inch drive? Obviously it will fit in the space (with plenty of room to spare). Comparing the physical dimensions of the two types, one is usually listed as "5.75 x 8" and the other is "4 x 5.75". It seems to me like the 3.5 inch drive should just look like a short 5.25 inch drive. The reason I'm wondering this is that several of the 3.5 inch drives seem to offer much better price/capacity ratios. For example, there is a drive from Tandon that has a list price of $440 and a capacity of 73.8 meg. When you consider that I was seriously looking at an ST251 which is only 51.2 meg for around the same price, it's kind of like getting 20 meg for free. -- David H. Brierley Home: dave@galaxia.zone1.com {cbosgd,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!galaxia!dave Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {cbosgd,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhb