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Article #40486can I put four floppies in an AT clone
From: Michael E. Goldstein
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1989 01:46
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1989 01:46
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Is there a way to have three or four floppy drives in my 12mhz AT clone. Currently I have a WD Hard/Floppy 16 bit MFM controller which has the following attached to it. 1 - St251-1 Seagate 40 Meg Harddrive 1 - 360K 5-1/4" Floppy drive 1 - 1.44 Meg 3.5" FLoppy Drive I'd like to add a 5-1/4" 1.2 meg drive to this setup so that users can use this machine to transfer files back and forth between the different standard floppy size's. Could I accomplish this by replacing the 5-1/4" 360K drive with a 1.2 meg drive that would read and write both 1.2meg and 360K 5-1/4" floppies? Would 360K floppies written from the 1.2 meg drive be read and writable on a standard 360K drive in another PC? Any help will be appreciated. Mike Goldstein University of Maine at Presque Isle goldstn@maine.maine.edu goldstn@maine.bitnet UUNET!goldstn@maine.maine.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!maine.bitnet!goldstn From: GOLDSTN@MAINE.BITNET (Michael E. Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: can I put four floppies in an AT clone Message-ID: <GOLDSTN.89362204630@MAINE.BITNET> Date: 29 Dec 89 01:46:30 GMT Lines: 26