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- From: autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Query: Installing a 3.5" Floppy on an 8088
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:24:55 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, St. Louis, MO
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- In article <C1Bqow.2sI@cgl.ucsf.edu> bic@cgl.ucsf.edu (Bruce Cohen %CGL) writes:
- >A friend has an old Leading Edge D. This is an 8088 machine. He would
- >like to replace the old 360K floppy with a 3.5inch 1.44 drive. I can buy
- >a controller for less than $40 and a drive for about $55. My sense is that
- >this should work. My question is whether there is any limitation in the
- >ROM for this old machine.
- You need to purchase a floppy or FD/HD controller for an PC or XT.
- The board needs to have a ROM on it. The ROM has an assigned
- starting address at which the code will "mesh" with the the ROM BIOS
- on the motherboard. If all goes well, all you need to do is start
- using the floppy drive. It is suggested though that you have the
- latest version of MS-DOS loaded (= 5.0).
-
- Someone may want to clarify this procedure and if so that's fine,
- especially since my own attempt failed. I suspect that there may be
- some problem with compatibility of the m/b rom and the board's rom.
- Nevertheless the user can still use 720K floppies.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Larry Autry
- Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
- autry@sgi.com
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