Todd Bonzalez to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 day agoSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1317file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphardware@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1317external-linkSan Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksarstechnica.comTodd Bonzalez to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 day agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ziphardware@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
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-squareElectricMachmanlinkfedilinkEnglish4•13 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-square@nucleative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•13 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.