Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!canrem![steven_baldassarra@canrem.uucp] From: steven_baldassarra@canrem.uucp (steven baldassarra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: 1.44m floppy problems Message-ID: <1991Jan22.1488.1418@canrem.uucp> Date: 22 Jan 91 21:58:09 GMT Reply-To: "steven baldassarra" Organization: Canada Remote Systems Lines: 16 DK>Right now, by changing a jumper on the drive and by jumpering the ROM BIOS DK>on the controller ON, I can format cheaper low density diskettes to 1.44 meg DK>with good luck. If however I want to read or write a 720K Disk, I have to DK>change a jumper on the drive, unjumper the ROM BIOS, and install the DOS 3.3 DK>DRIVER.SYS program! (no other combination seems to work) In this mode however, DK>the drive is really slow, and it no longer reliably reads 1.44m disks (even DK>when I jumper the drive back forcing the 1.44m mode). Can you tell me which jumpers on the 3.5" drive did used? (A, B, C, or D???) Steven --- ~ DeLuxe}ab #6922 ~ - Do you remember Byston Well - -- Canada Remote Systems. Toronto, Ontario NorthAmeriNet Host