dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) (09/25/87)
I have asked a local computer store if it is possible to add a 1.2 MB floppy drive to an IBM PC/XT (actually, it's an IBM PC Portable, which has the XT motherboard). After about a month they tell me this is not possible. I'm aware that I'll have to get a different controller card, but surely there is a 1.2MB floppy controller for the PC bus. Does anyone have a high density floppy in an XT, and if so can you recommend a controller? Dan Davison Arpa: dd@lanl.gov BITNET: dd%lanl.gov@wiscvm.bitnet CIS: 74065,41 UUCP: dd@lanl.uucp or ...cmcl2!lanl!dd Voice:505-665-1355| T-10 MS K710, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, Los Alamos,NM 87545
agnew@trwrc.UUCP (R.A. Agnew) (09/30/87)
In article <10494@beta.UUCP> dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes: >I have asked a local computer store if it is possible to add a 1.2 MB >floppy drive to an IBM PC/XT (actually, it's an IBM PC Portable, which >has the XT motherboard). After about a month they tell me this is not >possible. I'm aware that I'll have to get a different controller card, >but surely there is a 1.2MB floppy controller for the PC bus. Does >anyone have a high density floppy in an XT, and if so can you recommend a >controller? > Nope! You don't have to get a new controller! Weltec in Irvine makes a real nice 1.2M that just plugs in to your existing controller for about $139. I use mine a lot.