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From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Reply to Big Board II
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.131012.3071@techbook.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 13:10:12 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.224503.5999@simasd.uucp>
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In article <1990Dec3.224503.5999@simasd.uucp> donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) writes:
>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.     

  well, what i meant was could i connect my 8 inch drives to an existing
AT HD controller and get the thing to work with uniform??  the reason
why is because compaticards aren't exactly cheap, and i'd like to
avoid that step if possible.  i can make a proper cable, but i need to
know if uniform understands such a setup.


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