On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:15:04PM -0400, dmccunney wrote: > My old 32 bit desktop has a half height combo 3.5"/5.25" floppy drive. > It was originally seen as drives A: and B:, and which was seen as > which was controlled by a jumper setting on the drive. That went away > in an emergency motherboard replacement. The new mobo would see only > *one* of the drives as A:, and I had to pull the drive and change the > jumper setting if I wanted to access the 5.25" drive instead of the > 3.5" drive.
Indeed it seems to be the same "feature". > The new machine doesn't have floppy slots on the mobo, so while I have > the drive I can't hook it up. I *do* have a USB 3.5" floppy drive > which is seen as A: when connected and works fine, but I have no > current way to access 5.25" diskettes. (I have some old stuff I'd > *like* to access) Yes, I had similar problem a few years ago... finally I just prepared long cables to connect big FDD as kind of "external drive". ;) > (For that matter, I still have my original XT clone on a shelf, with > two 20*MB* Seagate MFM hard drives where the drives do not have > onboard controllers and connect to a card on the mobo. I'd *love* the > get the contents of the drives copied to a USB flash drive, but > haven't found a way to do it.) A solution exists: http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/xt-cf-lite I also have two old XT mobos, going to fit them with this "modern HDD" :) -- regards, Zbigniew _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
