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From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT vs. 360K drive
Message-ID: <2557@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 15:30:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2557
Posted: Thu Aug 13 15:30:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:58:24 EDT
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <1918@isis.UUCP> aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
>I was attempting to put a 360K drive [a Teac] from my Sanyo 555 pseudo-PC-clone
>into my new AT-clone...  but any attempts to read
>from the disk gave "not ready error reading drive b".
>
>Any suggestions welcome...

Put a piece of scotch tape over trace #34 of the Teac drive's
connector. This disables whatever the heck it is that Pin 34 does*.
I've done this in all the AT Clones I've installed these Teac drives
into (about a dozen) and it does the trick.

keith

* explanations invited; I've forgotten what pin 34 is for. Seems the
360Kbyte drives and the AT disagree as to the function...