Ozfer
Experienced Member
Hey guys I'm back again and need some more help with my ole 5150.
This time I'm trying to get my 5.25 floppy drive working. My system has 2 of them but I took one out to put in a 720k/1.4mb drive for booting later versions of dos.
I have a decent collection of software on 360k disks and was trying to use some of them in drive B while booting dos 3.3. The issue is it lets me format some of my blank disks but it only lets me format them to ~160000 and shouldn't they be 360000? Also I am not able to read any of my old software but it lets me sometimes read the disks I burnt with the system. I have tested the old disks before in a Pentium 1 system and at the least they were readable with the same floppy drive. Now I try to do dir and then I either get general read error or another floppy disk error and the disks don't read. Since I couldn't get anything to work with that drive I replaced it with the second drive and removed the t-res chip and it gets the same symptoms.
I tried cleaning the drive with a can of air and blowing the dust out and that didn't seem to work, I also used a q-tip on the head and that didn't help either. I'm not really sure whats going on since I used one of the drives from the system to read the disks in windows 95 on the pentium 1 system.
I also tried a different floppy disk controller I have that supports high density drives and it won't let the drives work either. Does anyone have any suggestions? The drives always power on fine and the system always makes attempts to read from them. I get no errors when powering the system on and I have the same configuration from my other posts (NEC V20 10Mhz, Intel 8087 10Mhz fpu, 512MB ram, 1 1.4mb drive, 1 360k tandon drive)
Furthermore I found a website a long time ago about a guy that completely maxed out his 5150 but he found a software way to get the system to read 1.4MB disks. This would be great since some software doesn't fit on the 720k disks and I would like to try running a few things that are 1M. Does anyone have the link to this website or know how to use 1.4MB floppies on a IBM 5150?
Thanks, Oz
This time I'm trying to get my 5.25 floppy drive working. My system has 2 of them but I took one out to put in a 720k/1.4mb drive for booting later versions of dos.
I have a decent collection of software on 360k disks and was trying to use some of them in drive B while booting dos 3.3. The issue is it lets me format some of my blank disks but it only lets me format them to ~160000 and shouldn't they be 360000? Also I am not able to read any of my old software but it lets me sometimes read the disks I burnt with the system. I have tested the old disks before in a Pentium 1 system and at the least they were readable with the same floppy drive. Now I try to do dir and then I either get general read error or another floppy disk error and the disks don't read. Since I couldn't get anything to work with that drive I replaced it with the second drive and removed the t-res chip and it gets the same symptoms.
I tried cleaning the drive with a can of air and blowing the dust out and that didn't seem to work, I also used a q-tip on the head and that didn't help either. I'm not really sure whats going on since I used one of the drives from the system to read the disks in windows 95 on the pentium 1 system.
I also tried a different floppy disk controller I have that supports high density drives and it won't let the drives work either. Does anyone have any suggestions? The drives always power on fine and the system always makes attempts to read from them. I get no errors when powering the system on and I have the same configuration from my other posts (NEC V20 10Mhz, Intel 8087 10Mhz fpu, 512MB ram, 1 1.4mb drive, 1 360k tandon drive)
Furthermore I found a website a long time ago about a guy that completely maxed out his 5150 but he found a software way to get the system to read 1.4MB disks. This would be great since some software doesn't fit on the 720k disks and I would like to try running a few things that are 1M. Does anyone have the link to this website or know how to use 1.4MB floppies on a IBM 5150?
Thanks, Oz