New 'Toy'

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sat Apr 27 01:42:15 2002

Yesterday I was lucky enough to pick up an IBM 5150 at Purdue Salvage for
$0 (just before it hit the trash). After a bit of playing with it, and
trying a SVGA card with it (it had no video card in it when I got it, I'm
suprised the 16bit card works OK in an 8bit slot), I've gotten it to boot
into MS-DOS 5 (ick) and CP/M-86.

I now seem to have a problem with its second floppy drive... When I try
reading from any disk, I get a "Data error" in CP/M and DOS. I think that
the problem is the head not moving... I can 'format' a disk in CP/M in the
drive, but I don't hear the disk head seeking. These are IBM branded DSDD
(full height 5-1/4") floppy drives.

Does anyone have any info I can use to try and debug (and hopefully fix)
this problem?

-- Pat
Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 01:42:15 BST