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Problems setting up Tandon Floppy externally

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From: Michael Lanham
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 03:03
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Hello,

I am in the midst of setting up a 360KB 5.25 Tandon Floppy Drive as
an external second floppy disk.  I have a PS/2 Model 30 (ie non MCA 8086)
with a 720KB 3.5 floopy, 20 MB HD and 640 KB RAM.  The secondary floppy
I have to control the external disk is made by Longshine & its model
is LCS-6812F Floopy Disk Adapter.

There is no way to diable the floppy/HD controller on the 30's motherboard so
I was setting this board up as the secondary controller.  The card's
firmware was disabled and the Jumpers for the drive types set for
drive 1:720 2:Logical 720 3:360.  I then installed the device driver in my
config.sys per instructions and when the machine booted I received the 
drive description of each of the drives as the docs say but then the machine
does not read drive C: but instead tries to boot from A.  In the process of 
getting it to boot from A with a DOS disk, I get this ANSI picture that shows
inserting a disk into the drive and to press F1.  I press F1 and the machine
locks up.

With all of that does anyone have any suggestions to correct the problem
and get this 360KB disk online?

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
and he who dares not is a slave.      --- Sir William Drummond

Michael Lanham       mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu   &  jumper@.catt.ncsu.edu
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Subject: Problems setting up Tandon Floppy externally
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Date: 25 Apr 91 03:03:47 GMT
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