Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!kv56962 From: kv56962@tut.fi (V{{r{nen Kari) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: External 3.5" drive for XT Message-ID: Date: 22 Sep 89 23:26:46 GMT References: <42900049@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <910014@hpmwdjm.HP.COM> Sender: News@tut.fi Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 30 In-reply-to: davem@hpmwtd.HP.COM's message of 18 Sep 89 19:52:51 GMT In article <910014@hpmwdjm.HP.COM> davem@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Dave McQuate) writes: > Doesn't work with PCTOOLS PCBACKUP because that program > doesn't know about the added floppy controller--and it wants to use > DMA. I bought a TMC floppy controller a week ago. It can have 4 floppy disk drives, one of which can be external. I am using it on my XT-clone with success. I now have 360 kB as A and 1.44 MB as B. Both drives are internal. PC-BACKUP works fine with my 1.44 MB disk drive. DOS format takes 1 min 26 secs (is that fast or what?)! I don't need drivers of any kind, neither do I need any 'drivparms'. I haven't tested yet, if my XT can boot from that 1.44 MB (changing it to A would be necessary, of course). The controller has a bios of its own. The BIOS of my XT is DTK ERSO BIOS, dated 1986... Now the important point: money. The 1.44 drive is TEAC (check the price yourself). The controller costs about USD 100. However, I had to buy new multi I/O card because the old one was a "multi I/O card with a floppy controller"... Well, to me it was worth it... -- SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH (The dolphins) Kari Vaaranen Tampere University of Technology Majakkakatu 30, kv56962@tut.fi SF-33410 Tampere, FINLAND