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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 2 disk controllers?
Message-ID: <37692@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:00:52 GMT
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hchen@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (H. Chen) <37589@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> :
-replace one of his 5.25" disk driver into a 3.5" one, does he need another
-disk driver controller card for 3.5 driver?  (Someone suggested here that 


I successfully replaced my 5.25" B:  drive with a 3.5" drive in a 1985
vintage xt-compatible, with no controller change.  I use MSDOS v3.21,
and my CONFIG.SYS file includes the line:

	drivparm=/d:1 /f:2 /h:2

I couldn't do this to the A: drive, because the BIOS and controller can't
handle the 3.5" drive on their own (so they can't ever load the o.s. and
CONFIG.SYS).  But it works with no problem for my B: drive.

Umm...  I'm talking about a 720K 3.5" drive.  I believe this will _not_
work for a 1.44M 3.5" drive.