I remember a higher-capacity 3.5" consumer drive that was around for a short
time, and it's capacity was (maybe) 1.8 or 2-point-something?

WB
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"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
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When I was one of the Engineering Managers at Mitsubishi, another group
produced special very high density drives that were 2.88M for IBM only.

I didn't know - but I suspected these were so that only certain machines
could read data and the data couldn't be copied. Might be simply a set of
files could fit on a 2M disk but not on 1.4M - so a better head was
developed.

I was the DRAM Engineering manager through DDRI.

Martin

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Wild_Bill wrote:
Some of the better quality 3.5" drives had a jumper to select low/high
density disks.
(maybe that was 780?kb or 1.44Mb, TEAC and SONY, IIRC were drives that
did have the jumper).
If you wanted to, an accessible external switch could be added. Most
drives are capable of detecting lo/hi density disks, but most machines
don't utilize the capability (as most machines will ignore that the drive
is empty, and attempt to read data anyway, even though there are switches
to detect that the drive is empty).

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