Re: Using 96tpi Floppy drives?

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From: brown
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 19:41

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In article <9200031@clio> berger@clio.Uiuc.ARPA writes:
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>I've been wondering about that myself.  Will the standard
>XT floppy disk controller support 1.2 meg 5.25" drives?

Standard IBM supplied XT controller will not.  It doesn't have the
support for the speed change.

>They will support 96 TPI drives formatted as 720K with DOS
>3.1 and later, I believe.

PC-DOS 3.20 is required to use 720K diskettes, either the 5.25 or 3.5" type.
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Subject: Re: Using 96tpi Floppy drives?
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 14:41:31 EST
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