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5.25 floppy drive

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by tjm57

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I have a toshiba 5.25 floppy drive. there are jumpers marked "HM HD LD & LI" on the pcb. What are these and what do they do? any info would be appreciated. thanks

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by oh smeg

And so on they set the size of the Media that the drive can read.

On some of the 5.25 inch drives it was necessary to set them to a lower size to work with the hardware that they where to be placed into.

I would suggest that you leave well enough alone and if you need this as a 1.2 MEG drive leave it the way that it was set.

If you have hardware that will not support the 1.2 MEG format you then need to change it but unless it is something special I don't think that it would still be running.

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