Sperry IT Problem

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From: Harold Davis
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1989 02:02

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I am having trouble with reading 1.2MB floppies and
especially 360KB floppies on a Sperry IT computer..
The system is a 80286-8MHZ with an embedded floppy controller 
on the motherboard. The problem is random and usually occurs
when large files are being copied from diskette to the hard disk.
I have tried a new disk drive with the same results thus
the problem looks to be with the floppy controller on the
motherboard itself. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix
this problem or even how to disable the floppy controller on
the motherboard in favor of an adapter card then please let
me know.

Thanks in advance.
Harold

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From: harold@disk.UUCP (Harold Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Sperry IT Problem
Keywords: DISK Sperry Floppy
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Date: 6 Dec 89 02:02:17 GMT
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Organization: Digital Information Systems of Ky (DISK), Louisville, Ky
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