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From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3.5 Inch Drives in XT's and Clones
Message-ID: <194@westmark.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 23:52:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: westmark.194
Posted: Sat Oct  3 23:52:50 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 03:28:05 EDT
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Summary: Toshiba
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In article <454@mit-caf.UUCP>, parris@mit-caf.UUCP (Patrice Parris) writes:
> Greetings All,
> 	      I would like to solicit information, dire predictions or words 
> of encouragement from you on the subject of placing 3.5" drives in PC/XT's and 
> AT&T 6300's.  Things like supplier(s), cost, DOS needed, extra HW required.

Toshiba sells a 3.5-inch diskette in a kit that includes mounting
hardware and cabling adaptors to allow you to mount it in a standard
XT or XT-compatible cabinet.  It supports the 720-kbyte 3.5"
diskettes (but not the new 1.4 Mbyte ones) using the standard floppy
controllers used with such systems.  I bought one at a computer fair
for about $120 last Spring.

You'll need MS-DOS 3.2 or later to use it.  (Earlier MS-DOS will use
it, but will format it for 360-kbytes.)  With 3.2, you insert a
driveparm line in your config.sys file, to describe the new drive,
and nothing else changes.
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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