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- From: cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: adding a 3.5-inch drive
- Message-ID: <6zanb1s7@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:56:03 GMT
- Sender: news@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Network news)
- Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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- My mother has a Taiwanese IBM PC look-alike with a 286 processor.
- It has an ST412/ST506 disc controller (not sure which).
- This controller is capable of supporting two hard discs and
- two floppy disc drives. (This might help to identify it.)
- At present two hard discs and one floppy disc are plugged into it.
-
- She would like to add a 3.5-inch floppy disc drive. There is no room
- inside the case so it will have to be an external drive. I understand
- that the plugs and cables on floppy disc drives are standard, but
- we're a bit nervous about proceeding:-
-
- Is the disc controller capable of supporting a 3.5-inch drive?
-
- The computer's BIOS is
- 286 BIOS V2.09 Award Software, Inc.
- Can this BIOS recognise a 3.5-inch drive? If not, what would you
- suggest as a replacement? (She doesn't want to change from version 3
- to version 5 of MS-DOS as the computer has only 640Kbytes of RAM.)
-
- The Setup program that came with the computer doesn't know about 3.5-inch
- drives, so we might have to put the parameters for a 3.5-inch disc
- in the CMOS RAM using DEBUG (nasty). What would we store and where
- would we store it?
-
- I know I'm showing my ignorance above, but that's partly why I'm asking.
- I'll send the news group a summary of the replies I receive by
- electronic mail.
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- Jim Hicks, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
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