Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!kokody2 From: kokody2@hammer.me.toronto.edu () Date: Tue Aug 16 14:40:05 EDT 1988 Message-ID: <5582.1988Aug16.14:40:05@hammer.me.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3 1/2" Floppy Drives for PC/XT Reply-To: kokody2@me.toronto.edu (Gerry Kokodyniak) Distribution: na Keywords: PC/XT, 1.44 Mbyte Drives In article <4640@whuts.UUCP> wsd@whuts.UUCP (Wayne S. Dinsmore) writes: # Using a 1.44M drive on an XT really sounds interesting but I have been # reluctant to try it. Does anyone know for sure, no guessing, if a 1.44M # drive on an XT will read a 1.2M disk formatted on an AT machine? More # specifically, I would like to use an XT machine to read a 1.2M, 5.25 inch # disk formatted on an AT machine. Does a 5.25 inch drive exist for the XT # that will do this? Thanks in advance for any and all info. Wayne, the 1.2 Mbyte drives are for 5.25 inch floppies while the 1.44 Mbyte drives are for 3.5 inch floppies. Therefore there will be difficulties in reading each other's disks |-). From what I understand, a 1.2 Mbyte drive can be installed on an XT. I believe the difficulty comes in when one installs the 1.2 Mbyte drive as drive A. Undoubtedly somebody here on the net here has come up with a solution to this and I will drop the subject. My brother had recently bought an Epson 1.44 Mbyte 3.5" drive for his XT clone and it has performed beautifully. He had originally purchased a Panasonic 1.44 Mbyte drive and could not get it to work in 1.44 Mbyte mode on the XT clone. Is this a quirk of the Panasonic drive or is it a fault of the interface card. The same interface card worked fine with the epson drive. Any help/comments on this would be appreciated. Thanks, Gerry Kokodyniak -- Gerry Kokodyniak, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Toronto Structural Integrity Fatigue and Fracture Research Laboratory (416) 978-6853 USENET: kokody2@me.utoronto.edu BITNET: kokody2@ME.UTORONTO UUCP: {linus,ihpn4,allegra,decvax,floyd}!utcsri!me!kokody2