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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Reading/writing 360k diskettes on an AT (long)
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 23:59:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 23:59:34 1986
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Keywords: AT 360K 1.2M Hi Capacity Disk Drive

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In all the discussions on this topic, no one has stated WHY it is necessary
to go trhough this kludge, which is admittedly risky.  Unless someone is 
using two full high hard disk drives, or perhaps a half-high tape backup
unit, in the AT, there is room for a second 1/2 high floppy drive.  At today's
prices, a half-high 360 KB floppy drive is about $100, with do-it-yourself
installation.  The cabling is already in the machine.  

Two installation notes.  

1.  Remove the termination pack from the floppy, and jumper the floppy as
drive 2 <------

2.  If the drive is not "AT compatible", you can make it AT-compatible
by using some tape to cover line 34 on the 34-line interface edge.

With this pricing, there's no reason to risk any valuable work to luck.

Phil Burton
Xerox Corp.

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