a550@mindlink.UUCP (Craig Cooksey) (08/04/90)
I recently installed a 1.2 floppy drive on epson equity 2 which does support
a 1.2mb unit. Works ok on 1.2 mb floppys, but will not read or format at 360kb.
Owners manual says it should read at 360kb. Comes up with 'Sector not found '
error message on 360kb floppies. Someone mentioned a command called DRIVPARAM
for config.sys, but I can't find reference to it in my dos manual. I run 3.3.
Any ideas welcomed.
Craig.danh@halley.UUCP (Dan Hendrickson) (08/08/90)
I also recently bought a 1.2MB floppy for my Equity 2, which did not work. I was reading on Compuserve about the EQ2 and the statement was made that the floppy required for this machine was a non-standard drive, with some signal or signals different. I left a message with the sysops to get more details on the exact differences, but have gotten no response yet. If some hack is needed to make a "standard" 1.2M work, I would be interested in it. Also if I find out any info from Compuserve or Epson direct, I will post it. By the way, the info on the EQ2 also said the non-standard drive which works on the machine is no longer available. Dan Hendrickson Tandem Computers, Austin TX danh%halley@cs.utexas.edu
mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) (08/09/90)
Subject: Re: 1.2MB ON EPSON EQUITY 2
From: van-bc!mindlink!Craig_Cooksey@gatech.edu (Craig Cooksey)
Status: R
Yeah tried that, after a lot of messing around I have discovered that there is
something peculiar in the on motherbd floppy ctrlr. for 1.2mb. The format
problem was cured with the Mitsi. drive by setting the SS [soft sector?]
jumper. After that it would read 360kb and 1.2mb floppies OK. BUT it doesnt
acknowledge the floppy change, ie. gives you the directory of the previous
floppy that was in the drive. After more messing around {I love PC's} I rang
the dealer I bought the unit from , and he said it was my controller. I rang
Epson and they said it was a jumper setting that doesnt clear the buffers after
a read, on the floppy drive. Tried all sorts of jumper changes, nothing worked,
took the drive back, xchanged it for a TEAC. Now it wont read from 360kb and
1.2mb without changing jumpers back and forth on the drive and still doesnt
acknowledge floppy change. Will acknowledge floppy change however if dip switch
on front of PC is set to 360kb. Which I guess means that the controller on the
motherbd. is looking for some signal from the drive. Epson manual says it
should work OK but Epson techo. says not likely, probably only the genuine
Epson 1.2mb will work. SO I think I will swap it for a 360KB unit and resume
normal life...
Still annoys me that I cant get it to work, anyone else got a similar setup??
[E-Mail reply posted at request of original poster, I believe Craig
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