On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 03:52, Johnson Lam wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:35:06 -0500, you wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > >It's a sony USB floppy drive I use because my Windows 2000 laptop only > >has one drive bay and I use the CD and floppy pretty often. I don't > >think it's a Windows 2000 issue with the 1.68mb format, but that the > >controller in the USB drive does not reconize it properly. > > Seems the USB firmware on some drive can't read non-standard format > ... I feel a bit like the USB-HDD DOS driver issue, some chipset work > but not all > > >I used to use the format for cramming a few more utilities on boot > >floppies. Since I only use the floppy for making boot floppies and > >transferring data to non-networked DOS systems at work I just stopped > >using the format. > > That means 1440K works fine on USB but 1680K fail on USB. Did you try > using the floppy drive bay to read 1680K? Did it work?
Yes my laptop will read 1.68MB if I put in the floppy in the bay. I checked Sony's site for the drive (MPF82e) in question and could not find any updated firmware for it and the manual says it only supports 720KB & 1440KB PC & Mac formats. They do have a Win2K driver for it, but I nerver installed it since it reconnized it at my "B" floppy the first time I plugged it in. Regards, Paul ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
