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- From: cellis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help installing Toshiba 5 1/4" drive (1.2M)
- Keywords: floppy drive
- Message-ID: <7326@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 01:00:19 GMT
- References: <parduse.920822194912@eng.auburn.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115
- Lines: 30
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- In article <parduse.920822194912@eng.auburn.edu>, parduse@eng.auburn.edu (Stephen E. Pardue) writes:
- > I recently aquired a used Toshiba 1.2M 5 1/4" floppy that I would
- > like to install in my pc. I have been trying to install it as the a:
- > drive. The system boots fine with the drive installed. When I chnage to
- > the a drive it spins up and comes back with a Not Ready error. I previously
- > had a Qume 360k drive as a: and it worked fine.
- >
- > The system I'm running:
- > 286 clone (1989 AMI bios)
- > 1.44M floppy as b:
- > ST-225 Hard drive (20M seagate MFM)
- >
- > Hopefully its just a jumper configuration problem, I don't have any
- > documentation for this drive. Thanks in advance.
- >
- > Steve
-
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- It's probably one of two things:
-
- 1) Have you run your CMOS Setup routine to tell it that the A: drive is
- 1.2 Mb instead of the 360 Kb that was previously installed?
-
- 2) If that doesn't work, it's either a jumper change or a tiny switch
- somewhere on the drive, to set it to drive A: (possibly drive 0 if the
- choice is dr0 or dr1). Some drives have these markings right on the
- circuit board.
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