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From: snc0231@cs.rit.edu (Curry Scott N)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Installing a 1.44M floppy drive in an XT compatible
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Date: 20 Oct 90 23:45:56 GMT
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I have been trying to install a 1.44M floppy drive into my XT compatible. Some people say you can install the drive and some say you can't. I bought a drive from two different companies and I have been unsuccessful in installing either of them. I have since returned them.

I would like to buy and install a 1.44M floppy drive into my XT. What do I need to get it working? What problems may I run into when installing it? What other advice can you offer.

Here is my setup:
	a leading edge model 'D' with 640k
	daiwoo BIOS: year??
	seagate st-225 hard drive w/ controller
	360k floppy drive
        etc.

I realize I need a new BIOS, but the FDD controller had a new BIOS on board to supposedly overide the old BIOS.


When I installed the drive, I got two errors. Upon boot up I got:
	
	drive 0 seek failure

and later on after the FDD controller was recognized:

	drive bad error

I would hit F1 to continue and run diagnostics on it. Everything past. Norton disk doctor said everything was fine. I could read and write to it ok, but when I inserted a new disk in I would get the old directory structure. I then found it would not write correctly across different subdirectories on the floppy.

I assumed that it was the way I installed it, but after several hours of rechecking and reinstalling it I figured out it was something else.

So can anyone help me out? 

Thanks in advance,

Scott Curry

email:snc0231@cs.rit.edu