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Re: Adding a 3rd Disk Drive to a PC

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From: David Ornstein
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1986 19:10
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In article <636@watmum.UUCP>, smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter) writes:
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of any software difficulties with adding a third
> floppy disk drive to a PC?  I want to add a 720K drive and run under
> DOS 2.10.  How do I tell DOS the drive is there, and what format it
> is?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Stefan Vorkoetter (watmath!watmum!smvorkoetter)

DOS 3.2 provides a device driver and support for 3.5" 720KB drives.  There
isn't, to the best of my knowledge, any support for it otherwise.

david (seismo!mirror!at2020!david)
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From: david@at2020.UUCP (David Ornstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Adding a 3rd Disk Drive to a PC
Message-ID: <15@at2020.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 15:10:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 15:10:57 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Oct-86 08:20:57 EDT
References: <636@watmum.UUCP>
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Organization: Access Technology, Inc., So. Natick, MA
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Summary: You need DOS 3.2.