![]() So there is no telling if there will be any consistency as to what is really in the product. The device manager identifies it as a "Y-E Data USB Floppy". The drive itself is only labeled "USB Floppy Drive" "Made in China E77FCD393L" with no branding. In the store it was just a brown cardboard box labeled "USB Portable Diskette Drive". This is a link to the product on the Microcenter web site: īut the box they show on the site looks different from what was in the store. The box also mentions 360RPM mode operation used by the Japanese 3.5" 1.25mb format, but I didn't test that. it totally crapped its pants and corrupted the file system when writing to it both in DOS and Windows! I verified that it could correctly read a file that filled the entire disk. I verified that the disk was readable in a normal drive.Īnother surprise was when I fed it a 1.7mb (21 sector) formatted disk. Windows XP format doesn't know what to do with 720k disks from the GUI, but from the command line it seemed to low-level format a blank 720k disk just fine. Sure enough, right out of the box it could read and write standard DOS formatted 1.44mb and 720k disks! From DOS, at least on the machine I used without any additional drivers, it ignored the low-level command and only verified the disk when formatting. ![]() ![]() On the back of the box they said they support 720k disks! I know that there have been some out there that can do this, but it seems hard to nail down a good source for these. Another surprise from my local Microcenter: They had a new, different batch of USB floppy drives on the shelf.
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