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From: demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Enigne Yratorelknaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Tandy in trouble
Keywords: Tandy firmware hardware EEPROM
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.094622.74@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 09:46:22 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
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Hi.  I have some massive trouble...I cannot use my floppies any longer!

Here's my system:
			A Tandy 1000 TL
			Configured with a 3.5 and a 5.25 floppies
			768K memory
			Tandy graphics
			Practical Peripherals OEM 2400 baud modem
			A generic serial port board
			A Game Blaster (please, no flames on this one)
			And a hard card (ST 157R, 48 megs)

Anyways, this is the scenario...

I was attempting in installing high density drives, one for each type
(3.5 and 5.25).  I tried to install the 5.25, but I didn't bother since
it didn't have the power connection at the right place, so I said screw it.
I tried with the 3.5 and got many wierd  things happening.

Well, first of all I bought a Toshiba 3.5, and borrowed a Toshiba 5.25, 'nuff
said.  The card for the high density was a generic type I got from Soft
Warehouse.  I know, I know, it might not work, but since it was cheap but
reliable, I decided to try.

Well, for about 3 hours of on and off of the power and many jumper changes
(both the card and the 3.5 drive), I decided to call it a failure and  return
the stuff.  But when I loaded my hardware back in (the original low-density
drives), the computer didn't recognize them properly.  I would get the error
'Failure' read error.  I got baffled.  So I thought it would be the EEPROM
setting since I tried the 'Vanilla' configuration.  No change.


Please!!!!!!  Someone, I need help!  Advise is needed, not flames, since I
am a student, and I got projects due very soon, and I can't even put them
on floppies to give them to the professors since they are on the HD.

Much is appreciated...

: 


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