Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu!trljim
From: trljim@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (James Sonnenmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 3.5" drive in a PC?
Message-ID: <40931@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 13:15:03 GMT
Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU
Reply-To: trljim@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu
Organization: University at Buffalo
Lines: 20
Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4.3

I wonder if anyone can answer a question.  I have a 720K 3.5" drive I want
to install in an origional PC. It had two 5.25" drives so I simply replaced
one with the 3.5" drive ( I assumed then the mother board switches were set
already for 2 drives etc ... ) but the machine thinks the 720K drive is
still a 360K drive! ... Like I said this is an origional PC ( circa 1983)
if I replace the disk controller with a more modern piece will that let me
use the drive as 720K??  ( It can *read* a 720K disk but cannot format a
new disk ... that is it thinks its 360K)


Anyone have any ideas??  Thanks

==========================================================================
Jim Sonnenmeier                  !
TRLJIM@UBVMS.BITNET  : BITNET    !    :-)
[72361,2133]  : CompuServe       !    I like to think that time and space
University at Buffalo            !    are ours to use :) ... The sky is my
Department of Mechanical/        !    joy, the wind is my lift.
Aerospace Engineering            !  
==========================================================================