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From: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
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Subject: Re: AT floppy drive in XT ???
Message-ID: <1331@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 21:36:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 24 21:36:08 1986
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References: <167@daisy.UUCP> <360@pilchuck.UUCP>
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Summary: There *IS* a way.

In article <360@pilchuck.UUCP> del@pilchuck.UUCP (Erik "Hugable" Lindberg) writes:
>In article <167@daisy.UUCP>, misha@daisy.UUCP (Mike Umansky) writes:
>> Has anybody out there tried connecting a high capacity (1.2MB) AT floppy
>> drive to an XT?  
>
>Sorry, but this won't work. The AT controller actually selects different
>data rate for the 1.2MB floppy, and the XT controller does not have this
>capability. Furthermore, the signal interface is different (what do you
>mean 5 1/4" standard?)

I believe Tall Tree sells a board that will allow using 1.2 drive on PCs.

>                        Note this also means that you can't even take a
>XT floppy drive and put it in an AT without a special adapter. Going the
>other way (AT -> XT) *might* be possible for the 360k low density drive, 
>but definitely not the 1.2MB.
>

Not quite... I'm now using a Teac 55b from a PC in my AT (clone) and all
I had to do was mask connector 30 (I think).  It works fine.

>
>Erik Lindberg   aka  del


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