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- From: neus@msg.ti.com (Mike Neus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Need Help W/ Colt!!!!
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:16:04 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments
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- In article <312D4AA7.4B4F@holli.com>, csparks@holli.com says...
- >
- >Hi,
- >
- > If anyone can Help me I have a Commodore Colt PC10 with 2 5 1/4" floppy
- drive
- >s that are hooked
- >to the motherboard directly, I would like to install a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
- drive
- >in place of one
- >of the 5 1/4" drives but my understanding is I would need an 8 bit floppy
- contro
- >l board with an
- >on-board BIOS to be able to control the 3.5" floppy drive because you cannot
- acc
- >ess the computer
- >BIOS on this system it is an old XT 8088, is this in Fact what I need and
- will i
- >t work and where
- >could I find such a controller board for the Commodore Colt PC10.
- >
- > Any Help on this would be greatly appreciated I'm running out of Ideas on
- thi
- >s.
-
- This group is for non-DOS Commodore 8 bit computers (C-64, etc.). You might
- get better response by trying one of the IBM PC groups. However, it should
- be possible to do what you want with a software driver. There is a driver
- that comes with Novell DOS that lets you define your disk drives independant
- of the BIOS to take care of your situation. There are probably also PD
- equivalents (try the PC groups).
-
- -Mike Neus
-
-