ardsleytank
Experienced Member
Oh, for got to ask! What do you mean by a "MIII" floppy cable?
Sorry, ignore that comment. I meant the 34 pin floppy cable with the female card edge connectors that is already in your Model III. But, you are not using this in your TRS-80, you'll be plugging it into your PC. So, you just need a 34 pin cable from your PCs floppy controller to the disk drive.Oh, for got to ask! What do you mean by a "MIII" floppy cable?
Well the drive came, and I have installed it. Changed the settings in the BIOS and Win98 recognizes it.
However, when I try to open A:\ it gives me the following error: "A:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready."
What do I do?
Okay, tried a few different cables to no avail. I forgot to mention that when I click "Retry" the head moves back and forth rapidly for a few seconds followed by the previous error.
So do I have a dud drive?
FORMAT /F:360 /U A:
Well, I got the drive working, using the command you suggested. This works well, and I can copy files to the disk.
However, when I put them in my TRS-80, it can’t read them. And when I format them in the TRS-80 my Gateway 2000 can’t read them.