#Bridgeboard Diskcopy
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Okay folks,
here is a good one. I have an A2000 with an A2386SX bridgeboard hooked up
to it. Attached to the bridgeboard is a Reveal VGA card and a multiport card.
Lastly, I have a Toshiba HD floppy drive attached to the Bridgeboard. The
problem? Be it a copy, a diskcopy, or whatever, the files do not copy over to
a HD floppy. Whatever was on the diskette prior to the copy is on the diskette
after the copy, which is very strange behavior for DiskCopy, let alone the
others. Even a straight copy from the harddrive fails. The files on the
diskette before are on there afterwords.
Any ideas?
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity…. The first lesson of politics
is to disregard the first lesson of economics." (T. Sowell)
Brian, I am assuming the drive reads fine and you get no DOS errors. If so,
then it looks like the write heads on the drive are not working properly. First
thing I would do is check the drive ribbon cable, then try another drive.
— Dogs crawl under Gates, Software crawls under Windoze —
Rick Green via AutoPilot 1.74
Rick:
It works fine with 2D diskettes, so I don't think the write head is defective.
It is only HD diskettes where I can't write. I've checked the cable, all the
chips on the BB, etc…. I guess there is nothing for it but to replace the
floppy drive, but still strange. I was hoping that it was a setup problem
somewhere. I guess not. Thanks.
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity…. The first lesson of politics
is to disregard the first lesson of economics." (T. Sowell)
Check for jumper blocks — the drive may be settable to lo and hi density
formats. But chances may be that the drive really is only low density – 720 K.
–Gabe
How is the drive setup in "Setup"? Type BBsetup or <ctrl><alt><esc> to
check/change cmos values. If floppy is set to 3.5" 720k then that is all you
will get out of it (similer problem if you have 5.25" drive set to lo-density).
Set to HD if it is wrong. I use the internal HD 3.5" floppy in my 4000 with the
A2386sx/25 board and it writes OK.
OTOH it could be your floppy drive is broken or sensor for HD operation is
dirty or hung-up.
Goin' AP
…..Mark Sterling