hutner@motcid.UUCP (Steven Hutner) (10/30/90)
I wish to install a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy on my AT&T 6300+. Has anyone out there tried this. Will the original controller support this drive format? Will AT&T dos 3.2 support this format? Can the hard drive be mounted somewhere other than in the front (so I can have two removable media openings)?
mort@hpihoah.cup.hp.com (Mark Mortarotti) (11/02/90)
I responded to your base note, but my machine told me it lost my responce, here goes again. I have what is known as a "Classic Vectra" made in 1986. As far as I know, all PC Clones made here at HP will support the 3.5" floppy drives. On my work Vectra, I use the 3.5" floppy all the time once the PC is booted, but can not boot from the 3.5" at this point in time (forever may be more likely). The way it works is through the use of a drive parameter and device driver in my CONFIG.SYS file. DRIVPARM = /D:1 /F:7 /T:80 /S:18 /H:2 /C DEVICE = C:\DOS\INDSKBIO.SYS /AT0 The '/AT0' is there for HP150 compatibility reasons since there 3.5' floppies are different in format from the IBMPC format, and to my knowledge, is not needed in your application. The DRIVPARM is needed to inform the driver INDSKBIO.SYS the drive geometry. Changing these parms will change the way writing is done on the floppy. If you recieved the previos base note, this one may give better info. Since I generally don't look at this base note, it is better to email me if you are interested in trying my 3.5' driver. Good luck Mark Mortarotti HP-MSL Cupertino CA 95014 mort@hpda