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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How do I add a 3.5" 1.44M drive to my old XT?
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.183610.4847@santra.uucp>
Date: 22 Mar 91 18:36:10 GMT
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In article <12206@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sadoyama@argon.berkeley.edu (Eric Sadoyama) writes:
>I've got an old Leading Edge Model D (an XT-compatible) that I'd like
>to add a 3.5" 1.44M drive to, either internally or externally.  I've
>been told that for various reasons, I can't do this.  Why?  
>

It is possible to add a 1.44M drive to a XT or PC, but you must have a
BIOS that supports the drive. As there are no new BIOS for a XT that
support the 1.44M drive you must have a new diskcontroller, with its
own BIOS. 

Your XT would, however, support a 720k drive. So if you can cope
with a 720k drive it's easy to change. You must have a driver.sys or 
drvparm line in your config.sys.


Markus Strand
mstr@vipunen.hut.fi