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from: Ed Durrant
date: 2004-12-12 15:30:28
subject: Re: floppy drive problem

Joe Farruggio wrote:

> The problem only occurs when i boot to my eCS system. When i boot to win
> xp or to eCs Maintenance systems, the floppy works ok. So i tried
> replacing ibm1flpy.add and ibm1flpy.SNP with the ones i had in my eCS
> Maintenance system and that did not work (same problem with the floppy
> disk). Does anyone have a clue as to what i should do next?
>

Check for an Irq or DMA conflict.

RMVIEW /IRQ

RMVIEW /DMA

Floppy needs IRQ 6 and DMA 2 - if anything else in the system hardware is using
either of these, change that device's configuration or disable/remove that
device.

Cheers/2

ed.



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