teitoku233
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I recently picked up this Compaq Portable 386 at a garage sale, the machine is in overall good shape except the hard drive is dead. I managed to let it boot off of an CF-IDE card, and just after replacing the 5.25" floppy drive with a 3.5" floppy drive, the computer displayed an 601 "diskette controller error" while booting, and the message even after I put back the original 5.25 drive". Power is going to the drive as I can see it spinning briefly and then stopping. Any clues? Is it a issue with the setup or is it a issue with the floppy controller chip? (P.S. I tried putting in another working 5.25" floppy drive from my IBM and it still won't work.)