Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up1290arrow-down1external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
See also: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/ \ https://lemmy.ca/post/19158929
minus-squareElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 hours agoI’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.
minus-squarenucleative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoYou are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.
I’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.
You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.