pkhoury
Experienced Member
I have a really strange problem. At first, I thought it was an issue with my Gotek floppy drive, but I've since replicated the issue with a physical floppy drive. I'm not able to boot up OS/2 1.x images, be it Microsoft or IBM. I can read the images just fine from various versions of DOS, also on the Gotek. I've tried IBM's originally crappy AT adapter, the WD1006 I currently have fitted on my 5162, and an Adaptec 1542CF, and all yield the same results.
The specific error I get is "A disk read error occurred. Insert a system diskette and restart the system."
I thought I'd spice it up a bit - the same floppy disk that fails on the 286's, works on my ThinkPad 755C (albeit with a trap, because of having more than 8MB of RAM). Same goes for a clone Pentium motherboard. So I'm wondering if it's specific to AT/XT 286 firmware, or something involving how the interface card reads from the drive?
The specific error I get is "A disk read error occurred. Insert a system diskette and restart the system."
I thought I'd spice it up a bit - the same floppy disk that fails on the 286's, works on my ThinkPad 755C (albeit with a trap, because of having more than 8MB of RAM). Same goes for a clone Pentium motherboard. So I'm wondering if it's specific to AT/XT 286 firmware, or something involving how the interface card reads from the drive?