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From: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: 1.2MB ON EPSON EQUITY 2
Summary: Further comments from original poster
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.025015.10870@uncecs.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 90 02:50:15 GMT
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Subject: Re: 1.2MB ON EPSON EQUITY 2
From: van-bc!mindlink!Craig_Cooksey@gatech.edu (Craig Cooksey)
Status: R

Yeah tried that, after a lot of messing around I have discovered that there is
something peculiar in the on motherbd floppy ctrlr. for 1.2mb. The format
problem was cured with the Mitsi. drive by setting the SS [soft sector?]
jumper. After that it would read 360kb and 1.2mb floppies OK. BUT it doesnt
acknowledge the floppy change, ie. gives you the directory of the previous
floppy that was in the drive. After more messing around {I love PC's} I rang
the dealer I bought the unit from , and he said it was my controller. I rang
Epson and they said it was a jumper setting that doesnt clear the buffers after
a read, on the floppy drive. Tried all sorts of jumper changes, nothing worked,
took the drive back, xchanged it for a TEAC. Now it wont read from 360kb and
1.2mb without  changing jumpers back and forth on the drive and still doesnt
acknowledge floppy change. Will acknowledge floppy change however if dip switch
on front of PC is set to 360kb. Which I guess means that the controller on the
motherbd. is looking for some signal from the drive. Epson manual says it
should work OK but Epson techo. says not likely, probably only the genuine
Epson 1.2mb will work. SO I think I will swap it for a 360KB unit and resume
normal life...
Still annoys me that I cant get it to work, anyone else got a similar setup??


[E-Mail reply posted at request of original poster, I believe Craig
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