Path: utzoo!attcan!rrowland From: rrowland@attcan.UUCP (Richard Rowland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 720k 3.5" on PC6300? Summary: 720K in a 6300 Message-ID: <13016@vpk2.UUCP> Date: 14 Nov 90 14:01:35 GMT References: Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto Lines: 11 In article , dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes: > I have an old PC6300 with the 1.43 ROMs. It currently has two 5" 360k > drives, but I want to replace one of them with a 3.5" 720k drive. If > I make *both* drives 720k, I can flip a dipswitch on the motherboard > and all is supposed to work well. I just one *one* of them to be > 720k. Can anyone offer any advice on this? > -- > Doug DeJulio > dd26@andrew.cmu.edu there is no need to change the switch settings on the motherbd. Simply install the 720K FDD as either A or B, then use the DRIVPARM feature in DOS (3.3 & up) to inform DOS that the physical drive is not a 360K FDD, but a 720K FDD.