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Jim Maunder (jimm@melbpc.org.au) wrote:
: Michael Page wrote:
: > 
: > I'd like to try and get hold of a cheap 3.5" floppy drive for an
: > old XT computer (to fit in a standard 5.25" slot).  Doesn't have
: > to be at all fancy, but I'd like to know it works as I'll be carrying
: > it across to Perth before I can try it out.
: > 
: > Can anyone suggest a good place to get hold of such a dinosaur?
[snip]
: However, as others have implied, there might be gotchas. First one is that 
: my drive is a 720kb fdd, and secondly you have to add some stuff into 
: config and/or autoexec to get it to work as a 720 drive. Try 'help 
: drivparm' for more info. I could not get a 1.44mb drive to work, but cant 
: remember whether it never worked, or only worked as a 720.

I remember having to do some weird driveparm stuff when I installed 
a 1.44Mb into my 8mhz Xt clone about four years back.. If I remember
correctly, it would read and write disks fine, but to format stuff you
had to explicitly specify number of sectors/tracks otherwise it wouldn't
format properly.. H/w was straight forward though.. altough I do
remember something about not actually telling the Xt the drive was there
through bios but somehow it still worked in dos... *shrugs*

Anyway, as someone hinted, it'd be a fairly pointless exercise nowadays..
esp if you'd be carrying it across to Perth.. 

Shawn


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