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Article #8582Re: Reading/writing 360k diskettes on an AT (long)
From: Philip M. Burton
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 04:59
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 04:59
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** In all the discussions on this topic, no one has stated WHY it is necessary to go trhough this kludge, which is admittedly risky. Unless someone is using two full high hard disk drives, or perhaps a half-high tape backup unit, in the AT, there is room for a second 1/2 high floppy drive. At today's prices, a half-high 360 KB floppy drive is about $100, with do-it-yourself installation. The cabling is already in the machine. Two installation notes. 1. Remove the termination pack from the floppy, and jumper the floppy as drive 2 <------ 2. If the drive is not "AT compatible", you can make it AT-compatible by using some tape to cover line 34 on the 34-line interface edge. With this pricing, there's no reason to risk any valuable work to luck. Phil Burton Xerox Corp. [no disclaimers ]
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!parcvax!burton From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Reading/writing 360k diskettes on an AT (long) Message-ID: <125@parcvax.Xerox.COM> Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 23:59:34 EST Article-I.D.: parcvax.125 Posted: Tue Oct 28 23:59:34 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Oct-86 02:45:06 EST References: <564@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> <273@puff.wisc.edu> <656@watmum.UUCP> Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) Organization: Xerox PARC Lines: 23 Keywords: AT 360K 1.2M Hi Capacity Disk Drive