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Article #84141.2 meg floppy on XT help
From: Chuck Wooters
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 20:03
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 20:03
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Hello- I need a bit of advice on installing a 1.2 Meg drive on my XT. I have a 360k drive now and I want to put in a 1.2 Meg as drive A, with the 360k as drive B. My floppy controller is on the same card as the clock/calendar, the serial port and etc (i.e. the hard disk controller is separate from the floppy disk controller.) There is a cable connected to the back of the floppy disk controller. The cable has two adapters on it. One of the adapters has a twist in the wire, the other one doesn't. (I think the one with the twist is for drive A). I connected the adapter with the twisted wires to the 1.2 meg and the other adapter to the 360k. The problem is that I get a general failure when I try to read from the 1.2 Meg (drive A). If I try to get a directory from the 360k (drive B), it tries to read from the 1.2 Meg. The light never goes on on the 360k drive. I hope this explanation is clear. Thanks in advance for your help. -Chuck Wooters wooters@icsi.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!icsib13!wooters From: wooters@icsib13.berkeley.edu (Chuck Wooters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: 1.2 meg floppy on XT help Message-ID: <20557@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 89 20:03:17 GMT References: <5715@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <31290@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: wooters@icsib13 (Chuck Wooters) Distribution: usa Organization: Statistics Dept., U. C. Berkeley Lines: 28