HD drives and the PCjr

From: Gene Ehrich <gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Tue Apr 9 19:12:25 2002

At 04:53 PM 4/9/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I installed a PC HD 5.25" floppy in my long-suffering PCjr by replacing the
>old IBM drive. It all seems to work on DD disks, but not HD disks. Do I need
>to upgrade something else? (being somewhat ignorant on old PCs).
>
>PCjr with 128K RAM expansion, floppy card, parallel port module, Cartridge
>BASIC running IBM PC DOS 2.1.

The problem is the operating system. DOS 2.1 does not support high density
floppies.
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 19:12:25 BST

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