Re: low density drive in an AT

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From: ROBIN
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1986 16:55

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> A friend wants to put a third party low density floppy drive in his AT so he 
> can write PC-readable diskettes.  I've been told that any standard low density 
> drive will do.  Is this the case?  Or do I need a special AT 
> controller-compatible low density floppy drive?  Also, who are reputable drive 
> vendors?
> 
Has he tried writing a low density(i.e. 360K) floppy in his high density 
drive?  Both the 1.2M drives on my AT regularly write 360s
which are readable by other IBM PCs and AT&T 6300 & 6300+.

Max Robin
AT&T Bell Laboratories
email:whuxg!2212msr
voice:201-386-6865

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