External 5.25 inch floppy drive for computer?

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1. COPY picked up the file okay from A: and asked for a disk in B:
2. Put disk in "B:" and got screen flash as DOS went to full screen!
3. It then asked for disk in A: and checked it out.
4. After a bit more of this A:/B: stuff at full screen it actually
made the copy okay, but the process was less than convincing!
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IMHO it is because the copy command can only handle 64kb at a time and
for files larger than this one has to swap the disks many times.

HTH
 
Impmon said:
Nah, hubcaps from '40 and '50 era cars can be mistaken for one. After
all, flying UFO are often seen as circular and not square.

Do let me know when a square UFO appears though. ;)
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Hello,

You're right; I was only thinking of the diskette "platter," itself,
instead of the casing. Nonetheless, "UFO's" come in all shapes and
sizes, so maybe there are some "square" ones, after all. ;-)


Cordially,
John Turco <[email protected]>
 
IMHO it is because the copy command can only handle 64kb at a time and
for files larger than this one has to swap the disks many times.
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If that's what was going on -- and from what it did it, sounds
rewasonable -- then I'm bloody glad I used a relatively small set of
test files and not a full floppy of them! :-)

Cheers, Phred.
 
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