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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
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Subject: Re: Reply to Big Board II
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Date: 3 Dec 90 22:45:03 GMT
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fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay) writes:
> 
>   by the by, i have a question regarding 8 inch floppies on ibm
>clones.  uniform is very handy in formatting oddball disk formats,
>but i was wondering if it is possible to use an 8 inch drive on an
>AT floppy controller to format and read 8 inch formats??
>
It certainly should be.  I am running an 8" drive on CompatiCard as a
secondary FDC on my AT clone.  The CC can also be used as a primary
controller on an AT, as it supports 1.2 and 1.44 meg drives.  Its major
advantage to me is that it is a 4 drive controller.     
                                                        - don

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