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Go... and NOGO!

leeb

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The 810mb replacement drive showed up yesterday.
I have spent most of 2 days attempting to get it recognized, but...

It appears that the BIOS on this machine is too 'inflexible' to accept it.

Lucky thing 'Lazarus' is still happy!

I have Turbo Pascal, Wordstar and 'part of' DOS installed... also found the V20/CPM emulator and hope to test some of the program Ive written on it!

I suspect that, inside the BIOS somewhere, is a SMALL list of drive parameters it WILL accept. Perhaps I can come up with a way to FIND them! :cool:

I think I found the pinout for the connector of the MODEM port... unfortunately it is apparently TTL-level RS232... so connecting anything but a serial-based device is out-of-the-question.
(ya know... like a USB port) :cool:

I plan to strip the ribbon connector off the old FD and use it to get access to this modem port... and then see for sure!
 
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