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From: cwong@acme.coyote.trw.com (Chun P. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: XT with 1.44Mb floppy?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 20:16:38 GMT
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Recently, I bought a new controller card to add a 1.44Mb floppy to my XT, thus
giving my system two 360K floppies, a 40Mb hard drive and a 1.44Mb floppy.
After I installed it, the system booted up fine.  I typed 'DIR' and still
everything was fine.  But when I tried FORMATting *ANY* of the floppy drives,
it would complain with 'Invalid bad media' or something to that effect.  I
took the card back to the store where they tested it on an AT-compatible,
and it worked.  I've heard that an XT *CAN* have a high-density floppy, but
how do I do it?  My system is an IBM XT with 640KB ram.  I have a 'SmartOne'
modem installed with a Herc mono card.  DOS is 3.30.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

-C. Wong