HELP! Floppy Drive not working out.

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From: John Kawakami
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 08:11

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I'm having a big problem.  I bought a 1.44Mb (high density) 3.5" floppy drive
to replace the SS/DD drive I have now.  My plan was to just pop the drive
in and use it like an ordinary DS/DD drive, not a DS/HD drive.  Well, it
didn't work.

So far, all that happens is that the floppy acknowledges its existence.
When I try to read, the light flashes on, but the computer cannot read the
data on the diskette.  When I formatted a diskette on it, the head did not
move, and the end result was a diskette that claims to have 0 bytes used,
0 bytes free, and 0 everything else.

The drive is a Toshiba.  That might have something to do with it; I recall
seeing things about that drive before.

John Kawakami       kawakami@earthquake.berkeley.edu
                    ucbvax!earthquake.berkeley.edu!kawakami
                    take-a-right-up-the-hill-then-a-left-on-leroy

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