Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!hao!noao!arizona!naucse!wew 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 Lines: 23 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