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From: sal@basp.nmpcad.se (Soren Altemark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Installing an external floppy drive
Message-ID: <1989Aug12.200213.14962@sics.se>
Date: 12 Aug 89 20:02:13 GMT
Sender: sal@nmpcad.se (Soren Altemark)
Reply-To: sal@nmpcad.se (Soren Altemark)
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Swedish Institute of Microelectronics
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I have problems adding a third floppy drive to my 386 AT system.
Besides the 5 1/4" 1.2 Mb and 3 1/2" 1.44 Mb drives, installed as A:
and B:, I would like to install a third 5 1/4" 360Kb drive. The A: and
B: drives are attached to a DTC (Data Technology Corp.) 5280CRA HD and
FD controller, supporting 2 floppy drives. For the third floppy drive
I have installed a separate controller card (Noname Taiwanese) set up
as seondary card (I/O addresses 370H-377H). My system runs MS-DOS 4.01
and Phoenix 386 BIOS 1.1.13.

My first idea was that installing the DRIVER.SYS driver, addressing
the external floppy drive as /d:2, should be sufficient to make it
work. But it didn't. I keep getting the message "Seek error..", trying
to access the external drive.

Do I have to use special driver to support my configuration? If so, is
there any available in the Public Domain? Is there any other solution
to my problem?
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Soren Altemark, Base/OPEN Development
Swedish Institute of Microelectronics, IM
PO Box 1084, S-164 21 KISTA, SWEDEN