Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> If you know what _brand_ of drive is in the various machines there,
 RJT> that might help figure things some...

 RT> Which brands don't work, or, which brands are more likely to work,
 RT> I think I have Mitsumi, NEC, Sanyo, and it is going to take 
 RT> stripping them out of the  boxes they are in to find out what is
 RT> where, in the six systems I have here.

 RT> Are the newer drives likely to work better for making extended
 RT> format floppies or the older ones?

I really don't know offhand,  just that some work and some don't.  I have a
number of used drives around here (used when I got 'em in other words) and
if I have a choice I go for Sony if available.  If I can I try and avoid
Mitsumi, Newtronics,  and Alps.  Wayne has said (if I'm remembering right)
that he did okay with H-P,  so it's a matter of gathering this info where
we can.

Anybody else want to jump in here?

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