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From: wooters@icsib13.berkeley.edu (Chuck Wooters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 1.2 meg floppy on XT help
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Date: 11 Dec 89 20:03:17 GMT
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Hello-

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.  

My floppy controller is on the same card as the clock/calendar, 
the serial port and etc (i.e. the hard disk controller is 
separate from the floppy disk controller.)  

There is a cable connected to the back of the floppy disk
controller.  The cable has two adapters on it.  One of the
adapters has a twist in the wire, the other one doesn't.  (I
think the one with the twist is for drive A).
I connected the adapter with the twisted wires to 
the 1.2 meg and the other adapter to the 360k.  

The problem is that I get a general failure when I try to read 
from the 1.2 Meg (drive A).  If I try to get a directory from
the 360k (drive B), it tries to read from the 1.2 Meg.  The 
light never goes on on the 360k drive.

I hope this explanation is clear.  Thanks in advance for
your help.

-Chuck Wooters
wooters@icsi.berkeley.edu