On 2000-08-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>How can one tell what type of drive one has? I just reconfig'd a
>>1.2MB to 360K and installed MS-DOS 4.01 sucessfully on an old 286.
>Well if it reads 1.2m floppies then it's a 1.2M drive ?
Recently, I acquired an IBM PC/AT 5170 with two floppy drives: a high
density (1.2MB) 5.25" drive, and a 3.5" floppy drive that, oddly
enough, would only read/write in 360k DD. Various diagnostic programs
indicated the 3.5" FDD was 360k or even 360k *and* 5.25"! After
getting a reference/setup disk from Canada IBM, I finally discovered
that I could reconfigure the CMOS for the 3.5" drive -- and surprise! --
it was a 3.5" 720k drive, and so I configured it accordingly. ;-)
I wonder how long it was used with this odd/incorrect configuration.
The bootup process would not indicate that there was an error or
conflict in configuration, and it would format a 3.5" diskette as
though it were a 360k disk without any indication that something was
wrong.
Jerry -- using his IBM PS/ValuePoint 433DX/Si | 12MB RAM; 55MB HDD
and his internal US Robotics Sportster with V.34, V.42bis
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