Re: need jumper settings on TEAC floppy drive (360K)

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From: Dorsai SysOp
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 22:50

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ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:

> I got my hands on a pair of used TEAC 360K 5 1/4" floppy
> drives, and I can't get them to work in an original IBM
> PC (5 slots).
> 
> The machine boots OK (I've left the original IBM drive in 
> as drive A), but any kind of attempted access on drive B
> (eg: DIR B:) results in a ERROR READING DRIVE B SECTOR NOT
> FOUND message. The machine works fine with a Mitsubishi 
> drive pulled from a Leading Edge (don't own the drive though
> *sigh*) so the controller is OK
 
Try placing the FDD Controller in the first slot...
 
Skip

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Subject: Re: need jumper settings on TEAC floppy drive (360K)
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