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. -- 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