Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!att!whuts!wsd From: wsd@whuts.UUCP (DINSMORE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3 1/2" Floppy Drives for PC/XT Message-ID: <4640@whuts.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 09:40:53 GMT References: <25275@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5930010@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <315@island.uu.net> Reply-To: wsd@whuts.UUCP (54299-DINSMORE,W.S.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, NJ Lines: 19 # In article <315@island.uu.net> troy@island.uu.net (Troy Taylor) writes: # > # >I have found great success in using a Sony/Toshiba 1.44M drive in XT # >machines using a drive interface board purchased at a local clone # >supplier in my area. The board is called an XT1.44 and has the capability # >of interfacing with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44M drives. The drive connected # >is selected by a jumper block on the drive card. # > 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 S. Dinsmore Make it in Massachusetts, | AT&T Bell Labs (ihnp4,att,moss)!whuts!wsd Spend it in New Hampshire. | 20 Shattuck Road Room 4A-118 | Andover,Mass 01810