Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 01:02:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies Message-ID: <199910202302.BAA44615@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199910201827.UAA01214@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Oct 20, 1999 8:27: 4 pm"
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As Wilko Bulte wrote ... > As Warner Losh wrote ... > > The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the > > probe routines... You may need to do some touchup there as well. > > As you seem to have used these 2.88 drives before: do I need to do something > special when I install a 2.88 into a PC? I set the BIOS setup to 2.88 > and hooked up the drive. I'm using WinNT (I know...) to check if the drives > are OK in the first place. Does one need a special cable maybe? > > Reason for asking: on neither of the 2 drives WinNT wants for format. > Rather it does 1E6 retries (judging from the sound the drive makes). This > is on new 2.88Mb media Scratch that question. One of the drives is now working, the other one remains dead. But they were $2 junk items so... Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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