On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Joe wrote:
> I picked up an old IBM XT today and it has a 3.5" floppy drive in it
> (and it works!) Anybody ever heard of this?
Presumably, that is a 720K drive (subject to what the extra controller
is). IBM sold internal and external 720Ks for the XT. To do it their
way, you need PC-DOS 3.20 or newer, and need to do a DRIVER.SYS in
CONFIG.SYS. But you could also use a 720K with certain OEM
(NON-IBM) versions of MS-DOS 2.11.
And the PC-JX (not available in U.S.) was available with 720K drives.
> The drive has it's own
> controller card and both it and the drive appear to be IBM parts. )I
> haven't pulled everything apart to be sure.) FWIW the computer also
Do you mean that it is NOT connected to the same controller as the
5.25" drive?
> has a FH 5 1/4" floppy drive and a HH 5 1/4" 10 Mb hard drive with a
> Seagate logo on the front of it. Anybody know if this is an original
> XT hard drive or a replacement drive? It's been so long since I've
> seen an original XT with the 10 Mb drive that I don't remember much
> about it.
Which model Seagate? It is likely to be an aftermarket drive.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Apr 07 2003 - 17:43:00 BST