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From: wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Floppy drives on an XT/AT
Message-ID: <520@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 87 17:50:34 GMT
References: <12124@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
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Summary: adding high capcity floppies to XT's

In article <12124@orchid.waterloo.edu>, mshiels@orchid.waterloo.edu (Michael A. Shiels) writes:
> 
> XT CLone
> 360K drive 5 1/4"
> 360K drive 3 1/2"
> 720K drive 3 1/2" same drive as above but using the DRIVER.SYS you get another
>                   letter
> 
> Now how can we add a 1.2Meg AT type drive and is there any way to hook up a
> 1.44Meg 3 1/2" drive (the new ones?)??
> 

Because of the speed of an XT it is not possible to drive a
1.2 meg or 1.44 meg drive from the existing controller.  You will
need to buy a special controller (I suggest the Compaticard from
MicroSolutions - 815-756-3411).

If you are using PC or MS-DOS 3.2 you may make the 3 1/2" drive
drive B by using the following command instead of driver.sys
  drivparm=/d:1/f:2

Good Luck!
William Wilson