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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.2M drive in an XT
Message-ID: <3561@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 17:09:21 GMT
References: <12553@s.ms.uky.edu>
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From article <12553@s.ms.uky.edu>, by kminor@ms.uky.edu (Kevin R. Minor):
> ....  I got a controller
> that tells me that I have a 1.44 mb drive, but ....
> I ended up using the drive as a 720k drive.....
> .....  If anyone has any
> ideas how to make a regular xt, (not an xt 286) use a 1.44 mb drive....

I responded by mail to the original 1.2M query, but apparently there is
more interest.

I don't know how it was done, because it was done by the clonemaker,
but I know it can be done, because I have it.  I have an XTurbo-10
clone with a Mitsumi 1.2M drive (with a DTK 3.5" floppy controller) as
drive A, no drive B, and a 30M Seagate kit for drive C.

I'm very happy with the 1.2M drive.  It saves time in hard-disk
backups.  It saves space in storage boxes for things I don't have to
keep on the hard disk.  My wife sometimes puts MS-Word files on DSDD
floppies and gives them to her colleagues to read on 360K drives, and
so far has got no complaints.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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