Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies...

2013-11-11 Thread Louis Santillan
Dave dunfield has a floppy controller tester. Download here < http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/dos/testfdc.zip> -L On Monday, November 11, 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > new floppy drives, new diskettes, everything there *is* okay. > old floppy drive yields same results. > everything in the comput

Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies...

2013-11-11 Thread Louis Santillan
Dave dunfield has a floppy controller On Monday, November 11, 2013, Mark Brown wrote: > new floppy drives, new diskettes, everything there *is* okay. > old floppy drive yields same results. > everything in the computer won't recognize second floppy drive on this > system. > > everything "clicks"

[Freedos-user] formatting floppies...

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Brown
new floppy drives, new diskettes, everything there *is* okay. old floppy drive yields same results. everything in the computer won't recognize second floppy drive on this system. everything "clicks" right, and is right, under ms-dos, except recognizing second floppy drive, but error 192 occurs

Re: [Freedos-user] formatting floppies

2013-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-11-10 09:07 (GMT-0800) Mark Brown composed: > i have a dell optiplex gx280. > first i found it doesn't support 2 floppys, only 1. fine. > now, however, 1.44 mb diskettes format fine with ms-dos 6.22, > but freedos trying to format them says: > """ > # Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet