While things like the Backpack floppy drive are great, you won't find them for under $100 and lately i've seen some sell much higher than that. I'm in the belief that you probably don't want to spend any significant amount of money to get the floppy situation worked out. Not much else to say here, just commenting on some of the above. Please check these things out, and report back. Mixing the two combinations MIGHT work, but it will not be reliable, so I'd not risk it. The magnetic properties of the formatting are different, to suit the material. Hold the disks up to a light and see the difference in transparancy. NB, the magnetic material in the 40T and 80T (HD) disks are quite different. In which case, use a magnet to carefully wipe the disk, and then use the 80T drive to write the 40T format onto it. Also, if you write a 40T format using an 80t drive onto a disk that has previously had an 80T format put on it, or a 40t format written by a 40t drive, then you will leave residue from the previous format which the 40T drive will pick up, and be confused by. You ARE writing the disk using a 40T format? BUT, you should also be using 40T (DSDD) disks, and NOT HD disks. The 360k (40T) drive should be able to read a 40T format even though it's written using a 80T drive. But, what formats are you using, and what disks are you using. I understand that you have a 360k drive in the 5160, and a 1.2 Mb drive in the Pentium. There are a few gaps in your question that need filling in. I have looked online and am not willing to pay the outrageous prices for a 360k floppy drive, so I was wondering if anyone has or knows were a reasonable 360k half height floppy might be. I have tried many of the suggestions on the forum on how to get different floppy drives to work together, with no successful results. After hours of getting the floppy drive to work it reads and writes fine, but the 5160 will not read the disks. I bought a used 1.2mb floppy drive to use in the Pentium machine. My plan was to download software off the internet on a modern computer, put it on the Pentium machine to write the files to a floppy disk, then finally have software on the 5160. Enter computer number two, an IBM 300GL with a Pentium 2. This was all good and well, but I didn't have any software for it. It is maxed out on ram, has one full height 360k floppy drive and a 10mb hard drive. That being said the first computer I bought was an IBM 5160. I am a high school student who has recently discovered the world of vintage computing.
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