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From: doug@hokulea.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre)
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Subject: Re: 1.2 Meg drive on XT
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:18:32 GMT
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In article <20556@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> wooters@icsib13 (Chuck Wooters) writes:
>I need a bit of advice on installing a 1.2 Meg drive on
>my XT.  I have a 360k drive now and I want to put in a 1.2
>Meg as drive A, with the 360k as drive B.  

You need a Advanced floppy disk drive controller to be able to use a 1.2Mb
floppy drive on a PC or XT.  The regular controllers won't handle 1.2Mb.
There is a article in Byte March '89 about doing this.

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