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Article #3204Re: Can an XT have high-capacity floppy drives? (summary)
From: Brian Myers
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 06:43
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 06:43
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In article <1990Sep17.014718.8240@agate.berkeley.edu> I asked: >its 360k floppies with a 1.2 MB 5 1/4 floppy drive? I've heard various >rumors saying that you can't, but no one I talk to s Seven people answered almost immediately. Sorry I didn't have time to thank you all individually. The concensus is that an XT as is cannot handle a high-density floppy drive. You can, however, buy an inexpensive controller card that actually contains a new bit of ROM that inserts itself whenever the drive is used, and then you *can* run 1.2 MB drives. Price estimates ranged from $35 to $50 for the controller card. Thanks again for the help, everyone. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Myers bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!bmyers From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Can an XT have high-capacity floppy drives? (summary) Summary: Yes, if you get a new controller. Message-ID: <1990Sep17.064320.25958@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 17 Sep 90 06:43:20 GMT References: <1990Sep17.014718.8240@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17