In message <199605241753.NAA19462@jfwhome.funhouse.com>, "John F. Woods"
writes:
>While I have both kinds of floppy on my system, the 5.25 is the one which is
>bootable unless I dork around with cables.  (Which, perhaps, I might as well
>do, since it has now been years since I had to reinstall MS-DOS 5 from the
>distribution floppies.)  However, I suspect that there are many systems
>cabled similarly, making that not necessarily a friendly change to make.

As a total aside, I was pleased to notice the new Intel 430HX chipset can
change the order of the floppy drives from the BIOS.  Trivial, perhaps,
but nice.  I changed my cables years ago -- it's easy enough to copy 1.2's
to 1.44's as long as they haven't done anything weird with the sector
layout.