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From: shedevil@portia.Stanford.EDU (Annie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Help with 3.5 drive and controller?
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.172532.15595@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 90 17:25:32 GMT
Organization: Stanford Law School
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Hi!

I am now the proud owner of a 1mb (720kb formatted) 3.5 drive.

I just installed it in place of one of the two 5.25 drives in my 286.

And it works! I'm happy!  

But, it will only format at 360k.  It will read a disk that has 720k of
space/data, but only format to 360k.

I *suspect* it's cause of the controller, and that I ought to be happy
that it even works at all without replacing same, but is that it,
and are there things I should check before making a fool of myself
at the computer store? :-)

I don't know what controller it is, all I know is the board is int ehre
with lots of little ribbon-wires coming out of it going to my hard drive,
and the two floppies. :-)  Should I start playing with dip-switches?

Annie
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