I recently got a hold of an external Microsolutions 1.4Mb floppy disk drive and I'm trying to install it but I'm having some issues. The pc that I'd like to install this is an Amstrad Mega PC (with 486 Cyrix upgrade running WIn95/DOS). Basically, I already have an external Microsolutions Backpack Bantam cd-rom drive attached to the Mega Pc and works fine, these units were advertised as "All Backpack devices can be daisy-chained" and that's exactly what I'm tryin to do between the parallel cd-rom and FDD. I was given the compatible drivers from another fellow member and the installation seems to go according to plan until the pc asks to re-start so it can see the new device. Once that is done the FDD is not showing. The thing is the software gives the parallel FDD the letter "D" but the parallel cd-rom also has the letter "D" for the device.
Any ideas or suggestions what the problem could be? perhaps I need to rename the drives???. I did tested the FDD with a laptop and works ok. Thanks in advance for any reply.
This is a pic showing how the devices are currently daisy-chained :
Any ideas or suggestions what the problem could be? perhaps I need to rename the drives???. I did tested the FDD with a laptop and works ok. Thanks in advance for any reply.
This is a pic showing how the devices are currently daisy-chained :