Bassy, harsh LOUD BUZZ! (Air shakes and vases rattles...) xyyy, where x is specific group and sub items within that group stands for yyy. For 601 that means 6 is floppy system as whole and 01 is general adapter error. This is floppy card controller fail. Clean all contacts and check all jumpers on floppy both or one drives should be set as number 1 (physical number so 0 counts. 0,1,2,3), power. Make sure your floppy controller card has that alone jumper is shorted. Your floppy cable has Twisted part on that floppy cable connecter stands for A: and UnTwisted one is B:. Either way the device as only one or on 2 drives, only one MUST have terminator resistor installed. But 1.44 drive does not need it because it's already built in. You can borrow modern 16 bit multi i/o that has IDE on it card and the 1.44 drive for testing! IDE does not matter it will not be used because of IRQ 14 but the vital i/o part of serial and parallel and floppy controller part will work on old PC and XT but the 1.44 will just work as 720k mode due to 9 sectors as expected on 360k disks. Make sure you already made several bootable 720k disks. I recommand dos 5 to see all of the hd if the hd is larger than 32mb. And that Dos 3.3 for least memory requirements and also supports 720k disks but dos 5 will do well and easier to get. I did that exactly like that on XT and it's successful. And much easier to get and cheaper this way. So you can know your pc is good, and allows you to have relaxed time to find proper components for it. Greater problem: new keyboards today and I mean those that you can get now no longer have XT support now. Better fix yours and keep 'em jealously! :) Both PS/2 and PS/1 keyboards can support either automatically. Other generics that does have one commonly have switch selection or very rare non-ibm makes does automatically as well. Troll

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, HOTZE wrote: WAIT! An XT will *NOT* take a new keyboard. You have to have an XT keyboard. Don't disassemble anything yet! See if there's an XT/AT switch on the keyboard (Probably not). I may be able to locate an XT keyboard here... but I think they're all in use. At echool there's still a large amount of them.