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From: MSPINNER@POLYGRAF.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: What's needed to add 1.2M and/or 1.44M drives to Xt clone?
Message-ID: <8486MSPINNER@POLYGRAF>
Date: 3 Nov 88 22:10:04 GMT
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Organization: Polytechnic University Computing Center
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Well, I have a Tandy 3000 system and I wanted to add a 1.44Mb Toshiba old-type
3.5" drive (don't ask why old-type, yet).  So, I needed to get a new version of
 BIOS to handle 1.44Mb drives.  720K will work with IBM DOS 3.3 driver.sys sett
ing up a virtual disk drive from the physical drive.  Getting back to adding a
1.2 Mb drive to a XT might require an upgrade of BIOS, but I think driver.sys
should do the drive to set the logical device to a 80 track formatting.  If the
device driver doesn't work - BIOS may be the way to go.

Mitch Spinner
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