Date   : Fri, 07 Dec 1990 09:30:50 GMT
From   : rex!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!nosun!techbook!fzsitvay@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Reply to Big Board II

In article <9012031701.AA16292@icf.llnl.gov.llnl.gov> rzh@ICF.LLNL.GOV
(R. Hanscom) writes:
>In <1990Dec2.045012.25373@techbook.com> fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
>writes:
>
>> by the by, i have a question regarding 8 inch floppies on ibm
>>clones.  uniform is very handy in formatting oddball disk formats,
>>but i was wondering if it is possible to use an 8 inch drive on an
>>AT floppy controller to format and read 8 inch formats??
>
>Check out Emerald in Oregon.  They carry the "Compaticard" which is a PC
>compatible disk controller.  I don't have one, but they appear to handle
>8" drives on a PC, although I believe the ads say that the AT will not
>boot from an 8" drive (that may not be a big deal!).  They are not cheap,
>but seem to answer your needs.

  perhaps i didn't make myself clear.  (entirely possible, since i'm human
and not perfect...)
 
  it's the fact that the compaticard is not cheap that causes me to post
the question in the first place.
 
  now, i know the hardware of an AT floppy controller will be able to control
an 8 inch drive.  that is understood without question, since it is basically
the same as the interface used with 8 inch drives.
 
  what i meant to ask was, "Does uniform know how to use the AT floppy
controller when it is connected to an 8 inch drive??"
 
  i have a space in my system's floppy storage system that is designed for
AT compatible HD disk drives, but what i want to know is if i were to
connect an 8 inch drive to it (with, of course, a cable that routes all
of the signals where they should go) can i expect uniform to be able to
work with this setup?  currently, i have a western digital WD1003-WA2
controller with both a st225 and a teac HD drive connected to it.  there
is room to connect another floppy drive to the controller (it supports
2 drives), and i'd like to put my 8 inch drive on that.
 
   i know a compaticard would solve the problem, but in my situation that
is not an alternative.

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