HD drives and the PCjr

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Apr 9 19:25:51 2002

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Gene Ehrich wrote:

> 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.

NOR DOES THE DISK CONTROLLER.
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 19:25:51 BST

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