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Article #43898Floppy controller question
From: Michael J Dedina
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 04:42
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 04:42
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Warning: neophyte questions follow. I recently obtained an old IBM XT with a 360K floppy drive and 10Meg Hard drive. I wanted to boost the storage capacity so I bought a 720K 3.5" floppy drive and installed it. It works fine with already-formatted disks, but when I try to format a disk (format a: /N:9 under Dos 3.3) I get "parameters not supported." Question 1: Do I need a new controller? Question2: I want to get more hard disk space as cheaply as possible; can I replace the hard disk controller with an RLL controller? Would this be risky? Thanks... dedina@cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!amdcad!sun!imagen!atari!portal!portal!cup.portal.com!dedina From: dedina@cup.portal.com (Michael J Dedina) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Floppy controller question Message-ID: <27750@cup.portal.com> Date: 10 Mar 90 04:42:25 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14