HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?

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From: Sharif Torpis
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:50

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     I have a 80286-based system from 1987 made by PC's Limited. I believe
this is the company that eventually became Dell. I am trying to add a 1.44 MB
FD to this system. However, after running the reconfiguration utility and
telling it that I now have a "HIGH CAPACITY" drive, the system fails to boot
and prints the error message "MISMATCH". Do I need a new FDHD controller card?
Or do I need a new BIOS from Dell? Does anyone have experience with this
model hardware?

ccowboy@gentoo.com

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From: ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis)
Subject: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:50:19 GMT
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