Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:53:22 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto floppy drive install?
Hmmm... It seems my long post on this floppy the other night didn't make it to the list.
I attempted to uninstall, and then reinstall the FDD drivers on my L100 the other night. But using files from 3 different FDD driver packages, I failed to get any to install.
I used the process I outlined previously to try installing drivers from L100FDD8.zip (I said .exe before, but it's a .zip file), L110FDD8.exe that contains files that match the ones Lee reported, and L100ctrl.exe that Toshiba support lists as "Toshiba Windows 95 Controls for Libretto 100CT". It was the last package there that I've been using to set up the FDD for the L100.
But every time Windows rebooted, it would go ahead and set up the same drivers that had previously been installed. Device Manager hadn't deleted them when I removed the FDD driver entry. So I renamed the one file it was reporting:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS\Flbfd.pdr
Short story, it found a couple of backups at reboot, and set them up automatically.
I renamed those, and on reboot, I was told the drivers had been successfully installed. But looking at the paths for the driver in DM, there was no such Flbfd.pdr where it was pointing. And each time, the drivers I pointed the "New hardware found" window to didn't get installed. And the FDD wasn't operational.
Then I tried "Add new hardware" from Control Panel for each of the 3 sets of FDD drivers I have. Each time Windows complained that the drivers I pointed to weren't the correct ones for the FDD. It would then go ahead and either set up a non-existing lbfd.pdr, leaving an error icon for the FDD in DM, or find one I hadn't renamed.
In the end, I had to rename the original Flbfd.pdr file back to its default to get the FDD to work again.
I'll post this, and then try again using the instructions in the README in the L110FDD8.exe archive Lee pointed to. The one in my L100FDD8.zip didn't make any sense, wanting to install the driver from a floppy in the FDD in Windows before any FDD driver was loaded! But the one in L110FDD8.exe says to merely right click on TSBFLBFD.INF, and choose "Install". Sounds simple. Let's see.
Matt
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> The FDD
> doesn't seem to be very particular about drivers.
>
> But it seems any of the drivers we've mentioned should install fine by going
> through the process I outlined. I've don't recall running any such .bat
> file as John described.
>
> Matt
>
I guess I would disagree. When I set up W98se on my L100, the floppy drive
was unusable except under DOS - and I had installed the W95 utilities package -
until I installed the W98 L110 FDD driver.
This FDD driver listed under the L110 drivers at the Tosh site has been used
on even the L50/70 running W98, IIRC, by some listers in the past (Neil?).
It's functionality is not exclusive to the L110, or the L1xx series, apparently.
There's no .bat file to run for this L110 FDD driver, just unzip it, read the
readme, do what it says to do - voila! But as usual, if there are any other
FDD drivers installed ahead of it, they must be deleted ("removed") through
Device Manager first, otherwise bad things will transpire.
Lee
