-=> Stephen Haffly mumbled something to Greg Mayman <=-
-=> on 01 Sep 96  08:47:09 about "Quickstart on XT" <=-
 SH> True, but MS-DOS 5.0 and DR-DOS 6.0 (and, I assume) newer versions of
 SH> DOS should support some type of drive parameter function.  You can
 SH> choose the 720k drive in BIOS, then use the DRVPARM function to set
 SH> the parameters for the 1.44m drive.  I had to do this on a 286 once.
I wish I'd known this last year when we tried to put a 3 1/2
drive on my mate's XT. We were told by an "expert" that the XT
BIOS would not support the 1.44 mode (true) so we couldn't set
the drive up to read 1.44 disks (not true, as you have shown).
Thanks. This one noted until needed again.
Greg
... Back up my hard disk? I can't find the reverse switch!
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