Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1545 comp.sys.att:4554 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!gbh From: gbh@juniper.uucp (Geoffrey B Hoese) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Re: All right! and 1.2M floppies; HwNote05 Summary: it ain't workin' :-( Keywords: 3.5 inch drive Message-ID: <5748@juniper.uucp> Date: 22 Oct 88 02:48:00 GMT References: <368@uncle.UUCP> <281@bagend.UUCP> <154@dms3b1.UUCP> Reply-To: gbh@juniper.UUCP (Geoffrey B Hoese) Distribution: na Organization: Austin Unix Users Group Lines: 33 In article <281@bagend.UUCP> jan@bagend.UUCP (Jan Isley) writes: >[ discussion of substituting 3.5 inch drive for 5.25 , >and how to format for 800 sectors ] I've tried this, thinking it would work, but no luck. iv reports an i/o error, and a message stating that "...Drive door open or no disk in drive..." is sent to /dev/error. The drive select light does come on, though, and the motor spins, also the head retracts to trk. 0 when iv starts. This doesn't work when the drive select jumper is set to 1, so I assume the machine is looking for d0. I'm using a teac drive, model FD-135FN-75-U. Is there something about this drive (a jumper, perhaps?) that needs to be set? (I have tried various jumper settings, but, alas, no docs) Alternately, is there a difference between motherboards that could be responsible? I don't know specifically what motherboards are out there, but if it helps, mine's a 7300 with 512K from DDS. I'm waiting for a good way to upgrade memory without desoldering all those chips, and quickly pulled the 10mb drive and put in a 30mb cdc in an external case. Excellent speed improvement there, how much does memory help the speed here? (give it a 10-scale). Thanks in advance, Geoff Hoese -- Geoffrey Hoese gbh@juniper.UUCP 2105 Arpdale {allegra,ctvax,im4u}!ut-sally!ut-emx!juniper!gbh Austin, TX 78704 (512) 445-4786 (sometimes voice, sometimes data)