5.25" Floppy - How to tell 360k and 1.2m disks apart?

[Nexus]

Hey all.

Just got a box of 50 5.25" floppy disks cos i need some for my legacy programs, etc. but i was wondering whether anyone knew how you can tell the difference between the 360kb floppies and the 1.2mb floppies.

If you cant then no worries - trial + error but it'd be great to know.

Cheers all who may help

 

[Legit^]

i havnt heard anyone talk about floppies for a while now

 

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

From what i read the 1.2m floppies will have notches on both sides [I assume they are referring to the lock/unlock notch] while the 360k only has a notch on 1 side. I don't have any old floppies laying around so I can't check that, good luck

 

[Nexus]

Do you mean the write protect notch?

 

[Nexus]

and @ killzone: maybe people should talk about them more lolz

 

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

Do you mean the write protect notch?

Yes, I believe so

The article I read only said 'notch' but I cant htink of anything else on a floppy that could be described as a notch

 

[!Woodstock!]

I did a google image search on the different sizes and came up with nothing to help tell them apart.

 

[Nexus]

Alright well thanks all for tryin anyways... I'll just figure it out somehow

 

[pillar]

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=MContent&pageid=128
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Floppy_disk?p=2
http://books.google.com/books?id=E1...ovnaBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
^top of page 654
http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#thin
^click on 11th link

ok im tired of research here. please do yourself (& us as well) a favor in the future & please research what you need for future purposes, this way it makes doin specific searching ALOT easier on us.

 

[Nexus]

Thanks a lot pillar. Sorry, ill try and research it all next time. I had done a bit but i was on here mainly for answers from people who had first hand experience which seems to be quite hard to find nowadays lol.. Anyways thanks a lot.