[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] i got them ol' 3.5" floppy blues...

jimbo@ee.ualberta.ca (Jim Bauer) (03/13/91)

hello out there...

i am (still) fighting with a 1.44 Mb 3.5" floppy on my (no laughing ;-)
8 MHz 286. i am running AMI bios and i just can't get it to work reliably.
i asked a local computer repair dude and he said that i needed a special
character in my config.sys device= command string for the floppy. so i 
tried that and it works about 1/7 of the time. but it WILL NOT work any
more relaiably than that :-( :-( :-(

can anyone out there suggest anything (no matter how goofy) that might get
this thing up and flopping ;-) i just can't handle the shame of being the
only one on my block without 3.5" floppy capability.

Gratefully (in advance),
the ever curious (and PO'ed),
mrs. bauer's boy... jimbo

p.s. the "special" character was the li'l white happy face (alt 001 or 002
or whatever)... kind of a evil choice IMHO.

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Jim Bauer                               jimbo@ee.ualberta.ca
Medical Laser Lab                       alberta!bode!jimbo
University of Alberta 136 Civil Elect   Voice (403)492-1489
Edmonton, Alberta Canada  T6G 2G7       Fax   (403)492-1811