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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: low density drive in an AT
Message-ID: <598@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Apr-86 11:16:17 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.598
Posted: Thu Apr  3 11:16:17 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Apr-86 07:04:58 EST
References: <3427@sun.uucp> <583@talcott.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <583@talcott.UUCP> lotto@talcott.UUCP (Jerry Lotto) writes:
>I recently picked up a TEAC 55 series drive for the AT from PCs Limited
>(Yes, I should have known better). I ran into two problems.
>
>First of all, the drive was built with the planar board mounted on top.
>In the AT, this means that the ribbon cable has to connect to the lower
>drive with the 3" A drive extension facing down. To reconnect the high
>density drive then requires wrapping the cable around itself, something
>which it is too short for.
>
>The other problem was that the rails were cut so far off that I would
>have had to shave off 1/4" in order to fit it under the existing drive.

We (I) have been buying the TEAC FD55B drives for our XTs for some time now.
All of the drives that I have received are circuit board on the bottom.
The red light on the front panel is above the slot for the floppy.  I have
never had any problem fitting them into a PC or XT frame.  I know it isn't
an AT, but shouldn't the hole sizes be the same.  I even stack two of the
55Bs together and install them into one of the PC/XT slots.  Every TEAC
drive that I have seen here (we ship different model drives with our digital
scope) has the circuit board on the bottom (if positioned that way).

So, I am not sure why you had the problem.
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