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Re: [Q]: Booting from floppy B:? swapped drives

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From: Neil Anderton
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <46gadb$mgi@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, sunny@exp2.wam.umd.edu 
says...
>
>John Savage (koala@sydney.dialix.com.au) wrote:
>: osv@newcom.kiae.su (Sergey Ostashenko ) writes:
>
>: >There is nothing in the Setup for booting from B:.
>: >Is there a way to force booting from B:? Any software?
>
>: You could swap the connectors around (and alter the setup) so that the
>: 3.5" drive becomes A:, otherwise determine whether one of these 
utilities
>: will work for you:-
>
>: ftp ftp.coast.net /Simtel/msdos/diskutil/
>: bboot.zip     B    3182  930910  Boot from B: drive instead of A:
>: boot_b.zip    B    4349  910626  Boots machine with A: and B: drives 
swapped
>
>: --
>: John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au
>
>Hi, I had the same problem and so I did exactly what this article said
>to do (switch the controllers between the two floppy drives) and now both
>my floppy drive (a: 5.25 and b: 3.5) don't work, the lights is on all the
>time and the computer doesn't recognize it.  Can someone help me.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>John Huang      sunny@wam.umd.edu 
>
Try reversing the leads. The red stripe on the cable always goes to pin 1 
on the FDD. If you can't see the pin numbers, I think Pin 1 on the 5.25" 
FDD is closest to the outside, while pin 1 for the 3.5 FDD is nearest the 
centre. If you are wrong, the FDD light stays on. Trial and error will 
find the right combination if I'm wrong!!

I presume that you have changed the BIOS setup (usually under standard 
CMOS setup) on bootup? If not get into the bios setup and change it.
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From: neila@mel.dah.csiro.au (Neil Anderton)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Booting from floppy B:? swapped drives
Date: 1995/10/24
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