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From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Can an XT have high-capacity floppy drives? (summary)
Summary: Yes, if you get a new controller.
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.064320.25958@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 90 06:43:20 GMT
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In article <1990Sep17.014718.8240@agate.berkeley.edu> I asked:  

>its 360k floppies with a 1.2 MB 5 1/4 floppy drive?  I've heard various
>rumors saying that you can't, but no one I talk to s

Seven people answered almost immediately. Sorry I didn't have time
to thank you all individually.  The concensus is that an XT as is
cannot handle a high-density floppy drive.  You can, however, buy
an inexpensive controller card that actually contains a new bit of
ROM that inserts itself whenever the drive is used, and then
you *can* run 1.2 MB drives.  Price estimates ranged from $35 to
$50 for the controller card.

Thanks again for the help, everyone.

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