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From: lau@ubc-ean.UUCP (Eric Lau)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: AT floppy drive in XT ???
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 10:49:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 10:49:51 1986
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In article <167@daisy.UUCP> misha@daisy.UUCP writes:
>Has anybody out there tried connecting a high capacity (1.2MB) AT floppy
>drive to an XT?  I have one and would like to be able to read AT floppies
>and also have a larger capacity temporary backup medium.  Can the standard
>floppy controller communicate with the AT floppy drive without burning it
>or itself out?  If the hardware is compatible, then, I guess, all that I
>will need is to write a driver based on the AT's BIOS, is that true?
>I appreciate all of the help that might be coming.  Thank you.
>misha
Tall Trees (JRAM Boards), makes a replacement drive controller for
the PC's that has the capabilities to use both 360K and 1.2M drives
at the same time.