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floppy drive problem
Name: Vern Brannon Date: April 14, 2000 at 13:33:11 Pacific
Comment:
I have a dell laptop with dual boot NT OS2> The floppy drive works fine under NT but when I boot to OS2 it says its bad.
Name: Andy B Date: April 17, 2000 at 01:08:11 Pacific
Reply:
Do you even see the drive under OS/2? Check for the statement 'BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD' in you config.sys (IBM2FLPY.ADD in case you have a microchannel machine)
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