5-1/4" drive on modern PC

Jerome Fine replies: Under Windows 98 SE on a 750 MHz Pentium III, I installed BOTH a 3.5" drive (A:) and a 5 1/4" drive (B:) The ONLY real problem (aside from setting the jumpers and using the correct cables, etc. was that at one point I removed the 5 1/4" drive. When I attempted to add the 5 1/4" drive back to the configuration, I seem to remember that it would NOT accept the second drive. Finally in desperation, I removed the 3.5" drive as well, then added back BOTH the 3.5" and 5 1/4" drives at the same time. That seemed to solve the problem. I use the 5 1/4" HD 1.2 MByte drive as an RX50 (sometimes even as an RX33 with a change in the media - ask if there are any questions) under E11 on the Pentium III so that I can transfer small files (up to 400 KBytes) from/to a PDP-11 with the real DEC RX50 drive. On the PC, PUTR from John Wilson is also able to FORMAT (LLF) the RX50 media. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.