ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2021 Entry 30th January 2021: Post 1: Power XL Drive - Recognising the larger drive Power XL Drive - Recognising the larger drive Someone recently asked me how to spot a Power XL Drive from an ordinary external double density drive. The truth is that other than its length being longer there is no way of knowing. To prove this I emptied my bottom shelf surplus drives and stood them one on top of another. The XL drive is the one that is longest. Sadly you will need other drives o compare to prove this point. I have a number of the 1760K/1440K drives but unfortunately the one shown here does not work. That is why it is confined to the stack of unused external floppy drives. The drive did use to work but one day it just stopped functioning. So I labelled it as such and junked it. I did check the drive a few years ago but no luck. Thes last couple of days I have been testing the drive again and cleaning the heads. She is being recognised as the bigger capacity and will format up to the point of being initialised. At that point in the cycle to bombs out and becomes a none DOS disk. I was about to put the drive away but as I was testing she again kicked out completely and was lifeless. I reflected on matters and decided to have another go... but tomorrow which is today. i did stop using DD disks quite early on in the Amigas life of 1994 and moved over to HD disks. Consequently I do have a lot of HD disks. Drawers full of them. They were all transferred to ZIP and then CD to are pretty useless to me. Would be nice to have another drive available. Power XL Drive - Recognising the larger drive

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