[Coco] Running 5.25" drives with Win 2000

[Dan Olson]

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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