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From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.44Mb 3.5" drive in XT clone?
Message-ID: <12467@emerald.BBN.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 18:39:04 GMT
References: <19248@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <19248@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) writes:
>I have a 2-year-old Taiwanese turbo (4.77/8.0 MHz) XT clone with a 30Mb
>hard disk and two 360Kb, 5.25" floppy drives.
>
>I am considering replacing one of the two floppy drives with a 1.44Mb,
>3.5" diskette drive.  While I'm at it, I might also replace the other
>floppy drive with a 1.2Mb, 5.25" floppy drive.

I used a Western Digital controller to drive a 3.5 floppy and a 360Kb
standard floppy with no discernible problems.  The WD controller handles
all the combinations you can think of, so I would guess it would work
with a 1.2Mb floppy as well.