5 May
2009
5 May
'09
12:55 p.m.
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Fred Cisin wrote:
Then I'm at a loss as to what the problem is. I can configure the system
such that the Compaticard is the primary controller (disable the on-board
FDC in the BIOS). The first 8" drive is unit 2 (in 0..3) and mapped as
drive D:. I did try lying to IMD and telling it that drive was 1.2, but
testfdc immediately returns an error without anything obvious having
happened.
In the IMD application itself, I can select format and it loads the heads,
pauses a moment and returns a "write protect" error.
That's about when I threw in the towel. The drive and card work perfectly
under Teledisk, 22disk, etc, etc. and I was able to write a usable boot
disk on it after a kind list member sent me a TD0 image.
--
> Not trying
to ridicule Steven or Dave; just pointing out that once you
> start adding/expanding there might not be a stopping point to that career
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
- I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't
let me specify a drive higher than
D. That's the extent of my concern. I just wanted to take a shot at
because the stock PC hardware supports a max of 4 drives. Any more
requires after-market hardware that is not standardized. seeing if
it would talk to the Compaticard FDC. It won't.
Now that I know it doesn't support anything but the NEC 765, I'll have to
The Compaticard IS NEC 765 (or indistinguishable copy) drives, 1.2M, 1.4M and, I think, one other. What
tells it there's an 8"
drive out there?
1.2M == 8" drive