Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:37:32 -0500 From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] L50 BIOS
You need to tape out one of the holes on the diskette. The 3.5" floppy drive uses that hole to differentiate 720k floppies from 1.44m ones. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James S. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:32 PM Subject: [LIB] L50 BIOS > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:28:19 -0500 > From: "James S. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: L50 BIOS > > While trying to install a new hard drive in my L50, I somehow > messed up my BIOS to the point that I now cannot boot up or even get an A > prompt with either the old or new drive ( which was working well). > It seems my only hope is to reinstall the BIOS via the F12 method, > but this calls for a low density formatted disk. I formatted a 1.44MB disk > at 720K and copied the appropriate (I think) files to it, but could not get > the Libretto to recognize it. > Any suggestions? > Jim > > James S. Clarke > > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives > http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
