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From: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HD 3 1/2" drive in IBM PC
Summary: Yes, it is possible!
Keywords: HD, IBM PC
Message-ID: <624@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 25 Feb 89 13:17:29 GMT
References: <7783@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: kluge@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Kluge)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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Hi citizens of netland!

Yes, it is possible to add 3,5 " HD disk drives to the original IBM.
I own an IBM XT /w 640 K and a 32 MB hard disk. I added a HD
controller of a german firm which holds an EPROM for a BIOS
extension. I cannot say wether it will run with older DOS version,
for I do use DOS 3.30 (I don't know why anyone should run older
versions, by now everything should run under 3.3). It runs pretty
well, I have connected to it a 3,5 " 1.44 MB drive and a 5.25 " 1.2
MB AT-like drive. 720 K diskettes are handled with ease. 
It all runs well, except PC-Tools: It does not recognize that I have
installed an HD controller, for it seems that it asks DOS and DOS
can't know. (Please refer to my article "DRIVPARM - how do I access
it" in comp.sys.ibm.pc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc).

If you can't find any american firm selling such a controller,
please e-mail me, I'm sure the german firm where I bought my
controller will be happy to sell it to you, too.
[# disclaimer: No, I don't have any relations to that firm]

So long ... Oliver

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