6 Jun
2007
6 Jun
'07
10:26 a.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
Dave Dunfield wrote:
A few of the PC motherboards I found were highly dependent on the drives used
as to what tests they'd pass. Mitsumi drives seemed to cause a lot of
problems, and I had one board which refused to pass tests with any 3.5" drive
despite passing the same tests with any 5.25" drive.
So yes, there are quirks (through no fault of testfdc) :-(
I would recommend testing the drives on a known
good system first.
Unless you know the drives are good, you can't trust the TESTFDC
results (A failure could be indicative of a bad drive, not a FDC
limitation).
What's "good enough" testing? As a minimum I'll boot DOS,
format a floppy with the drive and put DOS onto the floppy, then
boot the floppy. Is that enough or are there oddball quirks that
might be better exposed by something else?