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Article #170Have I done smoe omething stupid?
From: Jack Smoke
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:40
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:40
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I recently purchased a TEAC FD-505 dual disk drive for my home system.
When it arrived, I pulled the old drive out, popped the new one in,
and fired up the box.
The drive didn't work. I got seek errors on both drives,
and the BIOS didn't seem to recognize it as two seperate drives.
The drive came with one (1) page of documentation -
a chart of jumper configurations. I pulled the drive back out,
fiddled with the jumpers, plugged it back in.
No good.
I called the Tech Support at TEAC. On my third try
at making a long distance call to them, I finally got to talk to
a human. (Their answering machine cut me off twice.)
He said it sounded like a fault in between the boards,
and to send it back (At my expense.)
I did.
Then I had a terifying thought.
My system at home is a PC-XT. The jumper shhet says
"When connecting the duel FDD using a PC/AT host interface cable...."
The cable and power supply plugs both fit the board edge
perfectly, which is why I didn't think of this before.
Is there a way to convert this drive to an XT interface?
am I screwed? Did I spend $140 for a drive I can't use?
Responses by E-mail would be prefered.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!samba!usenet From: Jack.Smoke@launchpad.unc.edu (Jack Smoke) Subject: Have I done smoe omething stupid? Message-ID: <1992Dec24.154035.8254@samba.oit.unc.edu> Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: lambada.oit.unc.edu Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:40:35 GMT Lines: 31