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From: jimb@tekigm2.UUCP (Jim Boland)
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Subject: Re: AT floppy drive in XT ???
Message-ID: <775@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 20:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 20:17:39 1986
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In article <1331@well.UUCP>, mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman) writes:
> In article <360@pilchuck.UUCP> del@pilchuck.UUCP (Erik "Hugable" Lindberg) writes:
> >In article <167@daisy.UUCP>, misha@daisy.UUCP (Mike Umansky) writes:
> >                        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.
> >

Am I missing something??? Is not the floppy drive in a basic XT the same as
the floppy drive in a PC??  Is it not a regular old 360K drive??
 
> 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.

I took a standard garden variety floppy disk drive from a 68000 computer,
put it on a PC for a while with no mods or problems and then put it on an
AT with no mods.  Just plugged it in.  It works fine.