8" drives and Compaticard / Uniform

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Dec 14 00:06:23 1999

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Don Maslin wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bob Stek wrote:
>
> > Dick (or anyone else) -
> >
> > Would you have the jumper settings (default positions, definitions, etc.)
> > for a Shugart 860? DS0-3 I can figure out. But the rest...
> >
> > I have just added 2 8"ers to my AT via a Compaticard. I have them working
> > as MS-DOS drives D: and E: just fine, but when I use Uniform it always
> > accesses the 360K B: drive instead of the 8". I've got the Compaticard
> > manual, set up the board as the secondary, tertiary, and quartiary(?)
> > controller, tried EVERY combination of drive #'s (0-15), twisted and
> > straight cables, different cable combo's, different DS's on the drives, and
> > it STILL won't do anything but try to access the B: drive (when it accesses
> > anything at all) when I use Uniform to access the F:(CP/M) drive. I even
> > tried ASSIGNing the B: drive.
>
> Bob, UniForm will only permit you to identify/select a single copy of
> each type drive - that is 350k, 1.2mb, 3.5" (either 720k or 1.44mb) and
                             ^ make that 360k :-(

                                                 - don

> 8". I assume that you used Uinstall to make that identification. About
> the only way that I can think of that you could slip in a second 8"
> drive would be to identify it as a 1.2mb drive - assuming that you do
> not have one.
>
> I might note that 22Disk will permit you to use both 8" drives.
>
> - don
>
> > So close but yet so far....
> >
> > Bob Stek
> > bobstek_at_ix.netcom.com
> > Saver of Lost SOLs
> >
> >
> >
>
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