While waiting for my barebones 5160 XT system to arrive by mail (as described here), I've started planning which storage devices to use for it. I've looked through several threads here, as well as many pages on minuszerodegrees, but I would really appreciate if someone would take a look at this and tell me if I'm correct in my assumptions or not.
1. I've ordered this XTIDE card to use as harddrive and bought this compact flash card to use with it. I plan to install PC DOS 7.1/2000 on it.
2. I'm thinking about buying one 3.5" floppy drive and one full-height 5.25" 360 drive.
3. I know that the standard IBM floppy drive controller in the 5160 does not support 1.44 mb floppy disks, but that such a drive can be used as a 720 kb drive. In the future, I will probably buy one of these in order to enable full 1.44 mb capacity, but that will be a month or so into the future (as I have already spent way more than what I should on old computer stuff this month).
QUESTION: When buying a cheap 1.44 mb 3.5" drive off Ebay, is there anything in particular that I should keep in mind? Are there internal 3.5" drives that won't vibe with an XT system? Would something like this work, for example?
4. To turn the 3.5" drive into half height, I'm planning on buying a cheap tray such as this and put the disk drive in it.
QUESTION 1: Are there standardized measurements for such drives and mounting trays, so that I can just assume that it will fit nicely in the front panel of my XT, or are there certain considerations to make?
QUESTION 2: Besides the drive, the tray and some screws, is there anything else I need to mount the drive-in-tray in the front of my XT?
5. To make my XT setup more aesthetically pleasing, I've bought this half height face plate to put in the slot above or below the 3.5" drive.
QUESTION: Is there anything more that I need to fit the face plate into the half height slot (screws or what not), or will it be snugly attached by itself, as it were?
1. I've ordered this XTIDE card to use as harddrive and bought this compact flash card to use with it. I plan to install PC DOS 7.1/2000 on it.
2. I'm thinking about buying one 3.5" floppy drive and one full-height 5.25" 360 drive.
3. I know that the standard IBM floppy drive controller in the 5160 does not support 1.44 mb floppy disks, but that such a drive can be used as a 720 kb drive. In the future, I will probably buy one of these in order to enable full 1.44 mb capacity, but that will be a month or so into the future (as I have already spent way more than what I should on old computer stuff this month).
QUESTION: When buying a cheap 1.44 mb 3.5" drive off Ebay, is there anything in particular that I should keep in mind? Are there internal 3.5" drives that won't vibe with an XT system? Would something like this work, for example?
4. To turn the 3.5" drive into half height, I'm planning on buying a cheap tray such as this and put the disk drive in it.
QUESTION 1: Are there standardized measurements for such drives and mounting trays, so that I can just assume that it will fit nicely in the front panel of my XT, or are there certain considerations to make?
QUESTION 2: Besides the drive, the tray and some screws, is there anything else I need to mount the drive-in-tray in the front of my XT?
5. To make my XT setup more aesthetically pleasing, I've bought this half height face plate to put in the slot above or below the 3.5" drive.
QUESTION: Is there anything more that I need to fit the face plate into the half height slot (screws or what not), or will it be snugly attached by itself, as it were?