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From: jboggs@inco.UUCP (John Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.44M Drive for XT?
Message-ID: <7986@inco.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 90 13:36:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: inco.7986
References: <8587RUBIN@POLYGRAF>
Reply-To: jboggs@inco.UUCP (John Boggs)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <8587RUBIN@POLYGRAF> RUBIN@POLYGRAF.BITNET (David Rubin) writes:
>Is it possible to hook up a 1.44M 3.5" floppy drive to an XT compatible?
>If not, how about 720K?  Does anybody have a recommendation for such a
>drive and controller?
>
>Please respond via E-mail...
>
Sorry about postine this.  My E-Mail isn't working right now.

I just put a 1.44MB TEAC drive in my XT clone.  I had to upgrade my DOS
to version 3.3 to accommodate it and had to put a new floppy controller
in.  I used a SYSGEN OmniBridge controller (can handle up to four floppy
drives in four formats).  The only problem I ran into was in using the
1.44 drive as A:.  My system didn't like that setup and kept giving my
not ready errors when I tried.  I finally got it running as B: while using
my original 360KB drive as A:.


-- 
John Boggs

McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company
McLean, Virginia, USA