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From: randolph%cognito@Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz <SQA>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Compaq 3.3 3-1/2" problems
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 23:13:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 23:13:18 1987
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In answer to the following message:

    I'm running pc-dos 3.3 on a Compaq 8088 portable and I'm using driver.sys
    to access an external 3 1/2" 720K floppy.  This works fine until the first
    "not ready" error on any drive.  I must then use "int 13" to reset the
    floppy controller and manually read a few sectors from the drive.

	Two questions:

	  1. Why?
	  2. Anyone got a fix?

In answer, "Jay" (sun!housun!nuchat!splut!jay) writes:

    I asked this question of a friend of mine who works at Compaq's
    compatibility testing group.  He had a question and a comment:

    1) What revision level is his ROM BIOS at?  He needs to upgrade it to
    revision J, the current level; it corrected some floppy problems, and
    maybe his.  If that doesn't work, then:

    2) Compaq will introduce its version of DOS 3.3 shortly (he gave me the
    impression it would be a couple of weeks). That should correct all his
    problems.

    He indicated this configuration should work; if not, then there's a
    legitimate problem, and he should report it as one.

The ROMs in the problematic system are rev. C; they'll probably get changed.
--
Randolph Fritz
sun!randolph
randolph@sun.com