Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 5.4. What dynamic memory chips can be used to upgrade a 3b1/7300? Next Document: 5.6. Can I put a larger hard disk drive in the UNIX PC? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge drive and the 5.25" drive on my machine somehow? Yes, to the 720K. No, to the 1.2MB and 1.44MB. Putting a 720K 3.5" floppy drive is rather simple if you are just replacing the existing 360K 5.25" drive completely. In most cases it's a one-to-one swap, providing you can get the jumper setting set correctly on the 3.5" drive. You can run both drives, provided you make a mechanical switch (SPDT) to change the drive select between the 5.25" 360K internal drive and the 3.5" 720K (run externally). You need to make a cable to switch the pin 10 (FDRIVE0*) from one drive to the other. Drilling a hole in the case above the left fan grate is a suitable spot. When you use the 720K drive, all you need to do is create an iv description file that has 80 cylinders instead of 40, and you get the full 800K (80 tracks, 10 sec/trk). Makes backups go faster! User Contributions:Top Document: comp.sys.3b1 FAQ part2 Previous Document: 5.4. What dynamic memory chips can be used to upgrade a 3b1/7300? Next Document: 5.6. Can I put a larger hard disk drive in the UNIX PC? Part1 - Part2 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jbunch@nyx.nyx.net (John B. Bunch)
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