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From: feurer@brahms.udel.edu (Gary Alan Feurer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.44M drive in an old IBM-AT.....help!
Message-ID: <20768@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:05:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.143502.23888@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1991Apr24.143502.23888@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> etryon@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Earl Tryon ) writes:
=>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
=>-- 
I am currently having exactly the same problem with an old AT.  There may
be several of us, so maybe replies to the net would not be out of order.
Thanks.							--gary

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