steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (10/01/90)
The Subject line says it all. I can't for the life of me get my floppy drive to work off of the 1542B. The Hard disk seems to be just fine, although I won't know that until I can put something bootable on it. I suspect it's one of the jumpers on the 1542 that needs to be changed, or something in the BIOS (AMI on my AMAX386/20 Motherboard). If anybody has done this let me know. Anytime I try a new configuration, the 1542 BIOS does its message thing then the message of NO BASIC ROM or Cannot find Floppy Drive A appears and I can get no farther. I can rule out a cable problem, because I'm using it now on on my MFM controller. Oh, and all the time that the system is going through its BIOS routines, from power on to power off, the FD access light stays on. Do I need a special cable to use with the 1542B for my floppy? Please help. In an unrelated vane. Does anyone out there know how to get the AMAX386/20 Motherboard/AMI BIOS to recognize banks 2 and 3 of RAM? I just installed 4 MB additional, and would very much like to use it. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. -- SMY -- Stephen M. Youndt / "Remember, no matter where you go, uunet!hacker!steve / there you are." -- B. Banzai
gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) (10/02/90)
In article <197@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes: >The Subject line says it all. I can't for the life of me get my floppy >drive to work off of the 1542B. The Hard disk seems to be just fine, although >I won't know that until I can put something bootable on it. I suspect it's >one of the jumpers on the 1542 that needs to be changed, or something in the >BIOS (AMI on my AMAX386/20 Motherboard). If anybody has done this let me >know. Anytime I try a new configuration, the 1542 BIOS does its message thing >then the message of NO BASIC ROM or Cannot find Floppy Drive A appears and I can >get no farther. I can rule out a cable problem, because I'm using it now on >on my MFM controller. Oh, and all the time that the system is going through >its BIOS routines, from power on to power off, the FD access light stays on. >Do I need a special cable to use with the 1542B for my floppy? Please help. > >In an unrelated vane. Does anyone out there know how to get the AMAX386/20 >Motherboard/AMI BIOS to recognize banks 2 and 3 of RAM? I just installed >4 MB additional, and would very much like to use it. Thanks in advance for >any help you can give. -- SMY Ok, this may be stupid, but, I think you have the cable for the floppy on the AHA1542 upside down. Pin one, the red stripe, should be toward the front of the computer. This would swap the ground leads with the active leads. It would make the drive activity led stay on all the time and would cause the BIOS to report no floppy drive and attempt to access the nonexistant ROM Basic. Gary
rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom) (10/03/90)
In article <197@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes: >The Subject line says it all. I can't for the life of me get my floppy >drive to work off of the 1542B. The Hard disk seems to be just fine, although >I won't know that until I can put something bootable on it. I suspect it's >one of the jumpers on the 1542 that needs to be changed, or something in the >BIOS (AMI on my AMAX386/20 Motherboard). If anybody has done this let me >know. Anytime I try a new configuration, the 1542 BIOS does its message thing >then the message of NO BASIC ROM or Cannot find Floppy Drive A appears and I can >get no farther. I can rule out a cable problem, because I'm using it now on ^^^^^^^???? I had the same problem twice. Putting a 1542 in for a test run, and in for good, on a Cache 386 25Mhz (AMI bios). The 1542 defaults were all fine. Twiddling w/ the SCSI cables excorised the problem both times. The SCSI LUN #whatever was not being reported as found. This was not obvious as the Adaptec BIOS message was cleared away for the mo-board BIOS config info banner. (Bad design on AMI's part: this stuff should just scroll.) >on my MFM controller. Oh, and all the time that the system is going through >its BIOS routines, from power on to power off, the FD access light stays on. ^^^^yep, this too >Do I need a special cable to use with the 1542B for my floppy? Please help. Sometimes my unit would repeatedly go thru the BIOSes then cold reboot.
steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (10/03/90)
In article <1385@ke4zv.UUCP>, gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes: > Ok, this may be stupid, but, I think you have the cable for the floppy > on the AHA1542 upside down. Pin one, the red stripe, should be toward > the front of the computer. Honest, I did try flipping the cable, but to no avail (except a different error message "Cannot access floppy drive A"). This does, however, seem to be what everybody else thinks too, so I'll try again this evening. Whether or not it works, you'll be hearing from me. I'll post a summary of the useful suggestions. -- SMY -- Stephen M. Youndt / "Remember, no matter where you go, uunet!hacker!steve / there you are." -- B. Banzai