I've just installed an ATA 100 controller and a Seagate 40GB IDE hard drive in my PC 150 since my old SCSI 2GB disk died. I left the dead disc in place. I reloaded MACOS 9.1. Everything works fine except the floppy disc drive. Extensions on, putting a floppy in produces a freeze. Extensions off, the message "unrecognizable, do you want to initialize" comes up. However, when I try to initialize, it won't. Anyone have any thoughts? I think the problem might be that I need to get the new FWB Toolkit v 4.5 which supports IDEs, though I would have thought the floppy drive would not need that. I know FWB isn't popular with you guys, so any better ideas (I've never had a proplem with it)? Even in this advanced age, people keep giving me stuff on 1.4mb floppies, so it's a feature that I want, and it should work if I can just find out what I'm doing wrong.
Incidentally, the same time my SCSI disc died, my Zip Drive threw a tantrum and failed. It's my third Zip to do that. The dreaded "click of death". How does Iomega stay in business? I'm going to a CD/RW, since I'm adding one USB PCI Card, and one Firewire. I've had it with Iomega, sent them an email telling them so, to which they have not replied! John Daniell -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
