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- From: taylor@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu (Steve Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Both floppies won't read disks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.053924.16002@mcs.gvsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 05:39:24 GMT
- Sender: news@mcs.gvsu.edu
- Organization: Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI
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- Hi,
- I've got an interesting problem that I can't solve. I just purchased
- a 486/50 clone with 2 high density floppies. Neither the 3 1/2 or 5 1/4
- will read write protected disks. The drives will read the exact same disk
- if the write protect notch is switched to be writable. It formats disks
- fine on both drives and acts normally aside from the reading problem. When
- I pulled the cables off of the chinnon drives and attached them to a friend's
- Teac drives, everything worked fine. The dealer responded by sending me a
- new controller card and cables which didn't do a thing...they both will
- still not read write protected disks. Any ideas? Thanks for the help.
-
- Steve
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