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From: scheer@cell.mot.COM (Jon Scheer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,sci.electronics
Subject: More: 'Need help with 3.5" drives' or '3.5" drive blues'...
Summary: One more thing...
Keywords: 3.5" drives, help, msdos
Message-ID: <1069@hazel7.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 90 19:52:10 GMT
References: <1034@hazel7.UUCP>
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Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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In article <1034@hazel7.UUCP>, scheer@cell.mot.COM (Jon Scheer) writes:
> 
> 	- After the machine boots, if I put a formatted disk into
> the 3.5" drive and do a directory, the drive is accessed but I
> get a "Sector not found" (or "Read failure", I think) error message.

   Well, I messed around with the 3.5" drive again last night.  I noticed
the error message was not "Sector not found", but "Not ready on drive..."
message.


> 	2. Could it be that I need MSDos 3.3 ?  (This will soon be 
> verified; I'm 'borrowing' a copy to see if that clears up anything.  
> Something tells me that I've tried it before, though.)

   I got two slightly different copies of MSDos 3.3 last night and both 
yielded the same results: No change.  I get the same problems as I got 
with MSDos 3.2 and PC-Dos 3.2.

   Help!  Please??  ;-)


Jon
2/1/90

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