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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: 360K drive on an AT bridge board
Message-ID: <860@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 14:25:22 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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     I have a 2500 with a 2286 bridge board.  Since I exchange my
MS-DOS work with machines having 360K floppy disk drives, I've
tried replacing the 1.2-megabyte drive that came with the bridge
board with a 360K drive (Teac FD-55BR).  I first just swapped
drives without making any other adjustments.  To test the new
drive, I inserted a 360K disk and typed DIR; it seemed to work
fine.  I then removed the disk, inserted another one, and tried
another DIR.  I got the first disk's directory again; the system
didn't seem to realize that I had changed disks.

     Next I tried changing the disk type in the setup menu (control-
alt-escape) from 1.2 megabytes to 360K.  This caused the system to
lock up as soon as I tried accessing the floppy drive.  I have also
tried the following lines (one at a time) in CONFIG.SYS:

        device=driver.sys /d:0 /f:0
        device=driver.sys /d:0 /c /f:0
        drivparm=/d:0 /f:0
        drivparm=/d:0 /c /f:0

with the setup menu set to both 360K and 1.2 megabytes.  In each
case, the system would lock up as soon as I tried to access the
floppy disk drive, sometimes after displaying a byte or two of
garbage on the screen.

     Last night I took the drive over to a friend's place and
tried it in his AT clone.  It worked perfectly.

     Has anyone else tried attaching a 360K floppy drive to an
A2286?  Has anyone gotten it to work?  If so, HOW?

advTHANKSance...

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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