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From: etryon@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Earl Tryon )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 1.44M drive in an old IBM-AT.....help!
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.143502.23888@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 14:35:02 GMT
Organization: The National Pesticide Information Retrieval System, Purdue University
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Hi,

  Have a major problem!  Have an old IBM-AT and a Wyse 286 (4
years old).  Both machnies have or had 1.2M 5.25" A: drives and
720K 3.5" B: drives.  Both B: drives need to be replaced and
upgraded to 3.5" drives with 1.44M.  After several attempts to
install it became clear the BIOS or something was not going to
let the machines understand a 1.44M drive was present.  The
directory on both harddisks could be read but gets "sector not
found" errors when data is being read from the disk.
  Do I need to buy a new BIOS???  The floppy 1.44M drives are
Mitsumi 45223.  We have tried using a newer controller cards in
both machines (DTK 2-FDO card), with and without the card's BIOS.
HELP!!!!!!
                 Thanks for any suggestions.
                                             Earl
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Earl Tryon       Agridata Resources Inc.
330 E. Kilbourn Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53202
PHONE: 414/283-4382    FAX: 414/283-4357