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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using 8 inch floppies on an AT compatible
Message-ID: <2899@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 23:24:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2899
Posted: Tue Sep  8 23:24:18 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Sep-87 06:38:17 EDT
References: <2211@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <777@custom.UUCP>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
Organization: Syncstream/Widget Systems (San Francisco)
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In article <777@custom.UUCP> boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) writes:
>
>In the early PC days, when people were using 1.2MB 8" drives instead
>of the "new and improved" 160/320KB 5 1/4" drives from IBM, there
>were a few companies who produced an 8" controller for the PC.  The
>only one I remember is Maynard electronics.  I recently looked at
>one of their ads for a friend wishing to do the same thing as yourself
>and did not see their 8" controller/drive in the ad anymore (no
>big surprise).  I called them, they still make a board (2-3 week lead
>time) to control 4 floppies, including 8".  They provide no driver
>software for it, you can't have another controller in your system
>i.e. the combined hard/floppy controller, unless you can disable the
>floppy portion.  I asked them for some information, but I have not
>yet received it.
>
   Doesn't MS-DOS support 8 inch formats?  I have a Microsoft
2.0 MS-DOS Programmers manual and they spec several 8 inch
formats as being standard.  Do you really need to create a
driver for 8 inch?

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