Harsha Godavari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would appreciate any suggestions with this problem. Two floppy
>drives (1.44 & 1.2 meg) do not read or boot from bootable floppies
>while attached to a 486 system. The drives are accessed (lights come
>appropriately, Dir A: or Dir B:) but the data is not read and I get
>the message Abort,Retry,Fail?
>
>However both the drives work fine when moved to another system (a
>386).The multi I/O card and the ribbon cable are also defect-free.
>
>What can I do to get them to work in that 486 system. BTW a couple
>of 360k drives also gave the same response !
Perhaps it helps if you change the order of the drives on the cable, then
adjust the settings in the bios.
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Tibor Mocsar
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