[Coco] Running 5.25" drives with Win 2000

[Jim Cox]

The problem I seem to be having isn't with Windows 2000 
(not XP) but with the Motherboard of the one PC I am 
trying to work with.  I set the system up to have two 3.5" 
drives, and only the A drive works.  The B drive does not 
work.  I swapped drives ( A<->B) and only the A drive 
works, regardless of the 3.5" drive connected to it.

When I change the BIOS so that the A drive is a 5.25" 
drive it cannot see the media.  A combo drive worked only 
when it was dive A and set to 3.5", but the 5.25" drive 
still didn't work.

This could be due to the fact that the install of Windows 
does not have any service packs installed, or this 
particular Windows 2000 CD (OEM CD) was build without 
5.25" floppy support.

-Jim


On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:47:12 -0800 (PST)
  Dan Olson <dano at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> I've used floppies with XP, though 3.5", the OS seems to 
>be able to handle 
> floppy I/O without any problems, so I suspect that the 
>NTFS core, as you 
> call it, isn't the cause of the problem.  I have heard 
>other similar 
> reports of problems with XP and 5.25" floppies though.
> 
> 	Dan
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
> 
>> Windows 2000 is the direct ancestor of XP.  It has been 
>>clearly established
>> that XP does not support 5.25 drives in the CoCo mode. 
>> I suspect it relates
>> to the New Technology File Structure (NTFS) core.  In 
>>this rare case, the
>> answer is 98.  The last of that line, ME is unstable and 
>>has some other
>> problems that make it unsuitable for our CoCo stuff too.
>>
>> Bruce W.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'm having a little problem trying to get one of my
>>> systems to work with a 5.25" drive.  The system in
>>> question is a P3 - 500MHz.  I can set the BIOS for a 
>>>5.25"
>>> drive as either A or B, but when I boot into Windows 
>>>2000,
>>> every time I try to run the drive, I get "Please insert 
>>>a
>>> disk into drvie B" (or A) message.
>>
>>
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