Re: Dual Teac floppy won't do 720 Kb (fwd)

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From: Guy Martin
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00

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John Gilman wrote:
> 
> I've tried various combinations of the drivparm and driver.sys commands
> in my config.sys and haven't been able to find a solution.  Any ideas?
> Any hope?
> John Gilman

Man... I love your dedication to wanting to preserve your i286 based
PC.  But, for the price you payed (assumption) for the dual floppy Teac
drive you could have upgraded to a PCI based motherboard with an
AMD586-133Mhz CPU w/fan and pushed it to 160 Mhz.  I know... speed is
not a necessity for you.  Mixing todays components with the older
hardware is tough though.  My suggestion would be to upgrade your MB. 
Network, ask around, see if anyone's got a 386 or 486 sitting around on
a shelf collecting dust that they'll just give to you.  I just tossed
two 486 ISA MB's in the trash a couple of weeks ago.  They're out there,
parts, just sitting on shelves not being used...

   -g

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From: Guy Martin <guym@iag.net>
Subject: Re: Dual Teac floppy won't do 720 Kb (fwd)
Date: 1997/04/04
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