mikes@sir-alan.UUCP (Mike Squires) (01/08/89)
A recent posting to comp.sys.tandy showed how to attach an AT-style floppy to
the 8" floppy controller on a RS 6000 under XENIX. Is it possible and has
anyone done the reverse - attaching a Tandon 848-2 to an AT style controller?
(I need to move files from RS 6000 format to XENIX 386, and having an 8"
drive attached to a 386 XENIX box would make it unnecessary to keep a 6000
in the closet for disk accesses).
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In article <10@sir-alan.UUCP>, mikes@sir-alan.UUCP (Mike Squires) writes: > A recent posting to comp.sys.tandy showed how to attach an AT-style floppy to > the 8" floppy controller on a RS 6000 under XENIX. Is it possible and has > anyone done the reverse - attaching a Tandon 848-2 to an AT style controller? > > (I need to move files from RS 6000 format to XENIX 386, and having an 8" > drive attached to a 386 XENIX box would make it unnecessary to keep a 6000 > in the closet for disk accesses). > Even if you could do this, it won't produce the result you are looking for. The connection of a AT high density floppy on the 6000 only gave you a 5 1/4" disk for storing your data, instead of the standard 8" format. The disk was not in DOS (or 286/386 Xenix) format - the drive was actually formatting to 1.25 Mbyte (the same as the 8" version), not the 1.2 Meg DOS version (note - I don't have actually experience with this, I'm just repeating what I interpreted from the original posting). Your bets bet would be to get an 8" disk controller are drive for the 386 (which are available), and then a device driver for it (which may not be so easy). Jeff White Drexel University - ECE Dept. rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff