7 Apr
2003
7 Apr
'03
11:17 a.m.
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(a)xenosoft.com