Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!soleil!gopstein
From: gopstein@soleil.UUCP (Rich Gopstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Disabling floppy ctlr on 6300?
Keywords: floppy 6300
Message-ID: <346@soleil.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 15:11:19 GMT
Organization: GE Solid State, Somerville, NJ
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  I would like to add a 3.5 inch 1.44 MB floppy to my 6300.  The machine 
already has one 5.25 inch 360K floppy on the internal controller, and
a 20MB hard disk on an everex controller in one of the slots.

  A call to the ATT PC Hotline confirmed that the internal floppy controller
could handle the 720K 3.5 inch floppies, but not the 1.44MB variety.  The
person I talked to mumbled something about bending up pin 17 of the
floppy controller chip on the motherboard to disable the internal controller
so that I could install a floppy controller board in one of the slots.

  Can anyone confirm that this will work?  The person I talked to didn't
sound very sure of himself, and I am a little concerned about ripping the
machine apart before I have more information.  Thanks.

-- 
Rich Gopstein

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