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From: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using 8 inch floppies on an AT compatible
Message-ID: <35@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 17:25:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocksvax.35
Posted: Wed Sep  9 17:25:05 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Sep-87 06:43:55 EDT
References: <2211@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <777@custom.UUCP> <2899@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
Organization: Xerox: Henrietta, NY
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In article <2899@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes:
>In article <777@custom.UUCP> boykin@custom.UUCP (Joseph Boykin) writes:
>>
>   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?
>
>-- 
 The Xerox 16/8 used 8" floppy disks.

However, it doesn't support the PC rom bios calls (???), so you need a 
customized driver which knows about your hardware.

I use a SCSI host adapter board to connect to a DTC-1403D with 8" floppy and
hard disks on it.  I patched together a simple program which can read 
CP/M disks given important information found in the CP/M Bios.

I've toyed with the idea of writing drivers for Ms/dos for the floppy and 
hard disk, but never found a need.