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From: cro@cs.arizona.edu (Charles R. Oldham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Using 1.44Mb 3.5" disk drives on an XT with MS-Dos 3.20
Keywords: MS-DOS 1.44Mb
Message-ID: <43@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 19:51:12 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Good Afternoon,

	I have a two-fold question for all of the netters here

	I have an IBM PC-XT clone with a late version of the DTK/ERSO bios,
640K, 20Mb Seagate HD with a generic controller, and a special floppy
controller board that supports all 4 of the floppy disk formats (360K, 1.2M,
720K 3.5", and 1.44M 3.5").  I'm running MS-Dos 3.20.  I bought a 1.4M 3.5"
disk drive yesterday and installed it without incident.  However, as expected,
I can't read or write in 1.44Mb format.  720K format is fine, using DRIVPARM.

	1. Is there a driver program for MS-Dos 3.2x that will allow me to
           use the 1.4M format?  I need one for 3.2x because for some strange
           reason, I cannot format my Seagate for MS-Dos 3.3.  My system will
           not boot from the hard drive.

	2. Can somebody tell me why my system won't boot 3.3?  I can boot from
           a floppy, but not the hard drive.  Is there a fix for this bizarre
           behavior?

	Please E-mail to me, because of the large volume of this newsgroup, I
don't have time to read it all every day.  I will summarize to the net if there
is general interest.

	Thanks!

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