#2386 Help
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Has anyone had any trouble with their 2386 BB not recognizing a disk
change? I have two IBM drives installed and without doing a ctrl C the
drives are not recognized.
Thanks
James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside
James,
Just a thought. Are the drives jumpered correctly? Both
drives should be jumpered as DS1 and the first drive should be at the
end of the cable AFTER the twist and the second one should be
connected BEFORE the twist. It sounds like you may have the drives
connected in such a way that the PC doesn't realize there are two
drives. You also should run the CMOS setup and be sure you have it
set for two drives and of the correct size.
Both drives are indeed jumpered as DS1, and also in the correct
connectors. I can read from the drives (A: = 5 1/4" and B: = 3 1/2")
but I have to do a ctrl C before I can read a different disk in
either drive.
Thanks
James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside
Jim,
That seems strange, but what comes to my mind seems even stranger, and
that is the possibility that these are older drives or drives that cannot
recognize a disk change. Now I'm not really up to snuff on my floppy
technology, but some floppy drives have the facility to recognize a disk change
while some don't. Maybe the drives you have cannot provide the disk change
signal. I know that may seem wierd, but for now I can't really offer a better
suggestion. I have a combo drive on my bridgeboard and don't have such a
problem. I don't believe there is anything about the BB which would be the
cause of the problem unless you have the drive cable on the wrong BB socket
(which I assume is unlikely.) Besides, if that were true maybe they wouldn't
work at all.
James,
Well, you haven't said *anything* about your configuration, software,
etc., but if you happen to be running Windoze 3.1…
I tried turning on "32-bit disk access" as an experiment and had a problem
with floppy drive access similar to what you describe. If I changed disks
and did a "DIR A:" I would get the old disk's directory. So I changed the
setting back to turn off this access.
If you don't know what this is, then this probably doesn't apply to you
assuming you installed WIN from original disks (the default for this
setting is to leave it off). If you have not installed from the original
disks, however, select the "386 Enhanced" icon in the Control Panel and
then choose the "Virtual Memory" button and look at the bottom of the box
that appears to check the "32-bit" setting.
Maybe this will help *if* you're running Windoze…
*** jd
Well I havent gotten that far yet. I do have real windoze 3.1 disks
but upon installation I get to the point of inserting disk 2.
At that point it doesn't matter which disk I insert cause it still
thinks I have disk 1 inserted.
Thanks
James via AutoPilot
With Motorola Inside and Intel Outside