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Article #20106Dead floppy drive after motherboard fire...
From: Douglas C Ling
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:13
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:13
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I salvaged most of the functions after I replaced an EXPLODED capacitor. But I cannot get the floppy drives to function. I have a ST02 SCSI adapter controling two hard drives and two floppies. I have replaced the dead I/O card with an IDE-fDD/IO card (with the hard disk controls disabled). I have tested, in another machine that: - the floppy drives work - the SCSI's floppy functions do not I have also used my scanner to test out IRQ 3-7 to be operative. The floppy drives, under either IDE or SCSI control, will power up and spin up but I would get "drive not ready" errors if I do a simple "DIR". All other functions seem to be normal - except I notice just now that the real time clock would run slow if I turn the machine off(? This is unconfirmed) Anyway, I am wondering where I may next look for signs of damage on the mother board: near the ROM BIOS (where floppy control functions lie, true?), or where? I may have to get a new motherboard - at least my CPU and the SRAMs are OK. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Doug
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!dcling From: dcling@athena.mit.edu (Douglas C Ling) Subject: Dead floppy drive after motherboard fire... Message-ID: <1993Jan26.181337.21021@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: e40-008-11.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:13:37 GMT Lines: 23