Floppy Drive on a 3B1 seems dead
Future Unix Gurus
upl at puff.cs.wisc.edu
Thu Sep 14 00:28:52 AEST 1989
In article <3531 at zygot.ati.com> john at zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:
>The drive appears to be a standard, vanilla DSDD-type drive that would
>be used in an IBM PC/XT (360K). You can pick one up for about $70.
>That's what mine cost. You might check the cables first.
> John Higdon
I realize that this question is old, but how easy is it for someone to
replace the 360k 5.25" drive with a 720k 3.5" drive. I've already found
a drive source that will sell me the drive. I want to know the steps to
installing this thing.
A) is there a particular "kind" of drive that I have to get
(i.e. XT compatible, AT compatible, etc)
B) is going to a 720k 3.5" drive just a simple procedure of
unplug one and plug in the other (I suspect not) if not
what do I have to do? What's that going to cost?
C) those of you who have done this, please answer any other
questions that I haven't thought of, but you would answer
based on your experience of trying and/or succeeding at
this upgrade.
Thanks!!
- sparkie
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