[Novalug] USB floppy, format to 1.722M?

[richard at weait.com]

> Richard
>
> This seems to tilt the odds in favor of this working for me.  It also
> brings up the question for anyone to jump in here about...
>
>     What determines if a laptop floppy drive can read a 1.772M floppy -
> the drive itself, the BIOS, or the Tom-code on the floppy?  And it
> feels odd that now that floppys are pretty much obsolete, I'm just
> now delving deep into how the suckers work.
>
>     Note - I have other boxen with (probably) working floppy drives,
> but I don't have enough desk space to set another machine up.  I
> didn't wanna halt my working machine just bacause I'm seeing how
> long an uptime I can get outta it.

I don't want you to think that I have a huge amount of experience with
this, but of the, maybe, dozen computers / floppies I tried; they worked. 
This was around 2000-2002.  I did no fussing with stuff at all.  So give
it a try.  :-)