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From: wkb@cbnews.att.com (Wm. Keith Brummett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Do ANY hardware hacks read this group??!!
Keywords: hardware hacks
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.034437.13198@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 03:44:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.183139.1285@coplex.uucp> <45196@rphroy.UUCP>
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    In article <45196@rphroy.UUCP>, rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Robert L. Haar
    CS50) writes:
    >  ... Both 720K and 1.44M 3.5 diskettes use a very similar layout ...
    > The difference is ...
    > ... That is why you cannot put a 1.44M drive on a 720K controller
    > and expect it to work.

    Well, not quite.  I have a 1.44M drive on my XT 720K controller, and it
    works fine.  But only at 720K -- definitely not at 1.44M.

    -- Keith

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