gcorke@ccs.carleton.ca (Graham Corke) (06/20/91)
Help, anyone using a 720K floppy on the UNIX-PC, I am having difficulty installing the 720K floppy on my UNIX-PC. I have the driver from cheops, and I have set the jumper on the drive to DS1. The cable is straight through. The drive was obtained from Fujikama, and is a Panasonic drive. It has been tested on an intel machine, with the jumper on DS2. There is no terminator pin, or terminating resistor on this drive. Perhaps this is the problem. Can anyone, who is using a 720K drive on their UNIX-PC let me know the exact type and make, and also provide specific instructions for configuration of both the drive and the UNIX-PC. Perhaps it is necessary to alter the boot disk files somehow. When the drive is installed, my system just ignores it and boots from the hard disk. I've checked the cabling, and it appears O.K. Once the system is up, the "iv" command finds the floppy but gives and error. The correct driver, showing 80 tracks is installed. Help, I can't stand those small, tiny although reliable 360K things, Graham Corke P.S. I am working on a SUN and a larger floppy would make cheops software easily cpio'd to the ATT box.