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From: jtt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (James T. Tanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP - DTC7287 RLL controller + 2 floppies = 0
Summary: 'drive not ready'
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Date: 14 Nov 90 14:07:35 GMT
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I'm trying to hook up two floppies, a 5-1/4 and 1.44 3-1/2, and a
mitsubishi mr535 hard drive to the DTC7287 controller card from Data
Technology (Qume). Problem is, it does not work!

-after scanning all three drives, reports 'drive not ready' error.
-same behavior for startup disks on any style floppy 360, 1.2, 1.44

I had it booting with only the 1.2 meg floppy in place, but as soon as
it performed a single read, it gave a 'drive not ready' error. I think
that since the card does 1:1 interleave no read actually took place.

well, anybody have any ideas? configuration is:
386SX Neat-P9 motherboard.
DTC7287 RLL controller
the aforementioned drives
Momochrome CGA video.

HELP!

thanks
-JT