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From: lloyd@ficc.ferranti.com (greg lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Still need help installing 1.44M drive in XT
Summary: What has worked for me...
Message-ID: <2ZN6T8E@xds7.ferranti.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:05:35 GMT
References: <1930@cs.rit.edu> <4840001@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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I've tried several times to add 1.2MB 5.25" and 1.44MB 3.5" floppies to
XT-type systems.  The only configuration that worked without hassle was:

   o   Use PC-DOS 3.3
   o   Buy a multidrive floppy controller board that supports all
       floppy drive types

I spent $28 on the drive controller.  The board was a 1/4 length card
and had about 6 chips on it.  It had a ROM extension on it to support
the different drive types.  The board came from Liuski International.
They have offices in New York, Chicago, Miami, California and here in
Houston.

This combination worked in my old true-blue IBM-PC (not even an XT) and
in a couple of my newer XT machines with various brands of BIOS.  The
controller card also worked in a 286 and a 16MHz 386 harddiskless
system.

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J. Greg Lloyd
Systems Application Engineering
3655 Westcenter Dr.  Houston, TX 77042
lloyd@ficc.ferranti.com    ph: (713) 274-5260
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