demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Enigne Yratorelknaw) (03/06/91)
Hi. I have some massive trouble...I cannot use my floppies any longer! Here's my system: A Tandy 1000 TL Configured with a 3.5 and a 5.25 floppies 768K memory Tandy graphics Practical Peripherals OEM 2400 baud modem A generic serial port board A Game Blaster (please, no flames on this one) And a hard card (ST 157R, 48 megs) Anyways, this is the scenario... I was attempting in installing high density drives, one for each type (3.5 and 5.25). I tried to install the 5.25, but I didn't bother since it didn't have the power connection at the right place, so I said screw it. I tried with the 3.5 and got many wierd things happening. Well, first of all I bought a Toshiba 3.5, and borrowed a Toshiba 5.25, 'nuff said. The card for the high density was a generic type I got from Soft Warehouse. I know, I know, it might not work, but since it was cheap but reliable, I decided to try. Well, for about 3 hours of on and off of the power and many jumper changes (both the card and the 3.5 drive), I decided to call it a failure and return the stuff. But when I loaded my hardware back in (the original low-density drives), the computer didn't recognize them properly. I would get the error 'Failure' read error. I got baffled. So I thought it would be the EEPROM setting since I tried the 'Vanilla' configuration. No change. Please!!!!!! Someone, I need help! Advise is needed, not flames, since I am a student, and I got projects due very soon, and I can't even put them on floppies to give them to the professors since they are on the HD. Much is appreciated... : *************************************************************************** Yung D. Kim "I like traffic lights" Illinois Institue of Technology "13:2.5 male to female ratio" Computer Science and Technologies "Where's my disk for my project?" WhateverNET (I forgot): demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu "The Encore/MADMAX/IITMAX" Another source <======> kimyung@harpo.iit.edu "The VAX Marx brothers" "Bump a bump if you don't feel it" <================================ B.I.P. "All we are...is dust in the wind, dude" "Ted" Theodore Logan "All we are...is all we were less all we will be." Some dude named Donovan ***************************************************************************
demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Enigne Yratorelknaw) (03/07/91)
In article <1991Mar6.094622.74@iitmax.iit.edu>, demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu (Enigne Yratorelknaw) writes: > Hi. I have some massive trouble...I cannot use my floppies any longer! > Blah, blah, blah... > > I was attempting in installing high density drives, one for each type > (3.5 and 5.25). I tried to install the 5.25, but I didn't bother since > it didn't have the power connection at the right place, so I said screw it. > I tried with the 3.5 and got many wierd things happening. > ......verbage cut out...... > > Well, for about 3 hours of on and off of the power and many jumper changes > (both the card and the 3.5 drive), I decided to call it a failure and return > the stuff. But when I loaded my hardware back in (the original low-density > drives), the computer didn't recognize them properly. I would get the error > 'Failure' read error. I got baffled. So I thought it would be the EEPROM > setting since I tried the 'Vanilla' configuration. No change. > Forget it. Everything's okay. Sorry for the scare, if any. Oh, this kinda brings up a question in mind. Does anyone know why the 3.5 High Density is not properly recognized? I cannot get it to run at all. A friend says it might be my EEPROM/CMOS settings or my BIOS (won't support the 3.5 High Density). Please advise... Thanks. *************************************************************************** Yung D. Kim "I like traffic lights" Illinois Institue of Technology "13:2.5 male to female ratio" Computer Science and Technologies "Where's my disk for my project?" WhateverNET (I forgot): demoydk@iitmax.iit.edu "The Encore/MADMAX/IITMAX" Another source <======> kimyung@harpo.iit.edu "The VAX Marx brothers" "Bump a bump if you don't feel it" <================================ B.I.P. "All we are...is dust in the wind, dude" "Ted" Theodore Logan "All we are...is all we were less all we will be." Some dude named Donovan ***************************************************************************