On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, John Willis wrote:
> Joe, This is quite possible... Provided you have DOS 3.3+ and a
> controller with its own BIOS extensions. I have an XT machine
> (actually it's an original PC) that works much the same way, although
> the drive is unusable as I'm currently using DOS 3.21. As far as the
> hard drive goes, the original XT hard drive was a FH job with an IBM
> logo on the front of it.
PC-DOS 3.30, BIOS extensions, and a different controller card are
needed for a 1.4M drive, but NOT for 720K.
720K uses same BIOS, same controller as 360K. The only difference
is how many tracks it has. PC-DOS 3.20 has full support for 720K
drives in all models.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Apr 07 2003 - 18:17:01 BST