Ahhh, once again I've run into some stumbling blocks with getting my 386sx
bridgeboard system working. Tonite I bought a standard pc 1.4M 3.5" floppy
drive, and decided to do the following to my A2000:
- Remove the DF1: drive entirely
- Put the 1.4M in it's place
- Set up the 1.4M as the bb's drive A:
- Set up my df0: as the shared drive B:
So I set the J515 jumper to pins 1 & 2(for shared drive df0:)
and I set the J501 & J502 jumpers to pins 1 & 2 (for internal PC drive)
I then connected the connector that goes(normally) to df0: into the bb
double-ribbon connector, and connected the remaining connector on that end of
the double to my df0: . I connected the other two connectors(on the other end)
to the proper place on the bb. Then I took the OTHER ribbon cable, hooked it to
the PC-drive connector on the bb, and the other end to the 1.4M drive.
Then I powered up, only to find that my df0: was no longer functioning
properly(without a disk in the drive, it would flash the led three times, then
a "df0:?" icon would come up for it). I thought perhaps the problem was
PCPrefs.
Then I ran PCPrefs and set drive A: to internal, and drive B: to shared, and
drive df0: to be the one shared.
I then rebooted, and (still) df0: didn't come up, so I gave up on that (for the
time being) and reconfigured so that df0: would be amiga only, and the 1.4M
would be pc only, and left it at that. At this point, df0: worked fine again.
Then from the bb, I tried to access a disk in drive A: that I know is a valid
1.4M disk, and it would give me a whole variance of errors from "general error"
to "missing sector" error to "data" error, and I could not retrieve the data
from the 1.4M disk.
Can anyone offer any suggestions on how to fix this? (Oh, also, I originally
got my Amiga 2000 with both df0: and df1:, and I don't know how to disable df1:
again now that it's physically gone. Can anyone remember which jumper(s) to set
on a rev 4.2 motherboard?)
Thanks in advance!
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-Scott Lyon
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"Engineers... They LOVE to change things..." - L. McCoy, M.D.