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From: yon@apollo.HP.COM (David Yon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 1.2M drive in an XT
Message-ID: <453deca8.1042a@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 15:25:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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Help!

	I have a friend with an XT clone.  He put in a
second floppy, which is an 80-track, up-to-15 sectors
per track drive.  ie, 1.2 meg.  He also replaced the
floppy controller with one that would handle 360/720K
and 1.2M/1.44M drives.  He's been having trouble getting
the 1.2M drive to work at all.  The computer can access
the drive, but every operation (directory, format, etc)
ends up with one error message or the other.

	Has anyone out there done this?  I have a feeling
that DRIVEPARM might help, but he's already tried using
a DRIVEPARM statement describing the drive as 1.2M for
DOS.  Any help appreciated...

David Yon