acs@uncecs.edu (Wayne Fee) (05/03/90)
I recently saw a posting in which someone requested info on how
to get a 1.44mg 3.5" drive to work in a 6300+; I now need to know
how to do this but I could find no response to the original poster
on how its down.
Background: 6300+, ATTDOS 3.3 and ROM ver 2.05
Best I could do was get the 3.5" drive to format to 1.2mg; I tried
using DRIVPARM and even DRIVER.SYS but they were no help; DRIVPARM
to me seems the obvious thing to use. The drive switches on the
motherboard only seen to tell the machine whether or not it has
drives of 48TPI or 96TPI installed (I think that was all, I don't
have the manual with me know).
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Also, I remember a while back there was some discussion of bugs
in various versions of DRIVPARM; does anyone remember or have any
of this info?
Thanks to all for any help.
Wayne Fee, Academic Computing Services
Appalachian State U.
EMAIL: FEEJW@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU or FEEJW@APPSTATE (BITNET)
ACS@ECSVAX.UNCECS.EDUgr-ssa@cscraz.ncsu.edu (Shahrooz S. Alavi) (05/04/90)
In article <1990May3.154440.16053@uncecs.edu> acs@uncecs.edu (Wayne Fee) writes: > > > I recently saw a posting in which someone requested info on how >to get a 1.44mg 3.5" drive to work in a 6300+; I now need to know >how to do this but I could find no response to the original poster >on how its down. >Background: 6300+, ATTDOS 3.3 and ROM ver 2.05 >Best I could do was get the 3.5" drive to format to 1.2mg; I tried >using DRIVPARM and even DRIVER.SYS but they were no help; DRIVPARM >to me seems the obvious thing to use. The drive switches on the >motherboard only seen to tell the machine whether or not it has >drives of 48TPI or 96TPI installed (I think that was all, I don't >have the manual with me know). >If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. > >Wayne Fee, Academic Computing Services >Appalachian State U. I am the person that posted the original note. Unfortunately I have found no solution so far. As you have mentioned It formats the floppy at 1.2 Meg, (which is readable by 1.44 meg drive on my PS/2 at work). Furthermore it reads and writes to 1.44 flopies (formatted on another machine) This last one however is not exactly without help. After installation, every once in a while when I tried to read / write to 1.44 Floppies I got a message such as "Can't find the sector " (or some nonesense like that) I had a program called SMAX which came with a public domain program called MAXI (which claims to be able to format disks at higher capacity that originally intended to, ie 1.6M on 1.44 etc., ) MAXI did not work on the 6300+, but the bios patch (SMAX) made it possible to read/write to 1.44 floppy with no problem (but not format). The drive as it is however can not read/write 720K floppies (with / without the patch)! Final Conclusion: It is possible to read/write but not format 1.44Flopies (unless of course someone writes a Bios patch / driver of some sort, ANY VOLUNTEERS??? ) I suppose the right driver (patch) could enable the machine to do 720K. How ever it is obviously NOT POSSIBLE TO USE THE 1.44 DRIVE AS BOOT DRIVE, you still need your 360K/1.2M drive for boot. ------------------------- S. Alavi (919) 467-7909