Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!dduck!leo From: leo@dduck.ctt.bellcore.com (Leo Zvenyatsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need help with 1.44 Meg floppy drive Keywords: 1.44 floppy help bios Message-ID: <18100@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: 31 Oct 89 21:21:50 GMT Expires: 14 Nov 89 05:00:00 GMT Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Reply-To: leo@dduck.UUCP (Leo Zvenyatsky) Distribution: na Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 52 Sorry to bring this up again. I know that this has already been discussed at length, but I seem to have discarded all the info. I am having problems with configuration of a 1.44 Meg floppy by TEAC. Here is the problem: I have just added a 3.5 inch 1.44 Meg floppy to my system (which has been functioning fine), and now when I use normal DOS utilities such as COPY, XCOPY or other utilities such as XTREE I consistently get an error message when accessing the 1.44 Meg floppy: Sector not found error reading drive F Abort, Retry, Fail? Chkdsk, Dir, Norton's NU and NDD and FastBack Plus all work fine and never complain. I have tried numerous variants in CONFIG.SYS with the same results. Currently, the CONFIG.SYS contains the following line: DEVICE=DRIVER.SYS /D:1 /T:80 /S:18 /H:2 /F:7 I have tried PC-DOS 3.30 and 4.01 and MS-DOS 3.30 all with the same results. I used the Advanced AT Diagnostics 2.01 to configure the system. Since it does not know anything about 3.5 inch floppies, I told it that the drive (physically drive B:) was a 1.2 Meg floppy. As of this posting i have the following configuration: AT compatible 6/10 MHz 1 Meg RAM Phoenix 3.10 BIOS WD 1006V-MM2 controller Seagate ST-251-4 1.2 Meg TEAC floppy PC-DOS 3.30 (same results with MS-DOS 3.30) I don't know where the problem lies: in SETUP, DRIVER, CONTROLLER, or BIOS (or a combination of the above). Any help will be appreciated. Please respond via e-mail. _ ___ | If any views or opinions are found _// / | in this article, please return to: / _ __ / | Leo Zvenyatsky /___