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Article #3942Re: [Q]: Booting from floppy B:? swapped drives
From: Neil Anderton
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,2366935123547c41,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,2366935123547c41,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 111d31,2366935123547c41,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111d31,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,2366935123547c41,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public X-Google-Thread: 1674b9,2366935123547c41,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1674b9,public From: neila@mel.dah.csiro.au (Neil Anderton) Subject: Re: [Q]: Booting from floppy B:? swapped drives Date: 1995/10/24 Message-ID: <46i5qt$r8f@weever.mel.dit.csiro.au> X-Deja-AN: 118033507 references: <1995Oct9.094317.26432@newcom.kiae.su> <45qqgn$j87$1@sydney.DIALix.oz.au> <46gadb$mgi@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> organization: CSIRO Division of Animal Health mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc