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old 5.25
Name: Alex2002 Date: July 23, 2003 at 12:23:06 Pacific OS: Win3.11 CPU/Ram: 386/8mb RAM
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Got an old system with an old 5.25" floppy drive. I just need the manual for the drive but dont have much info - it says on the drive MATSUs---A and i see the numbers FPK02452B3 and FMD01730B4 - ive tried searching but no luck, anyone help me on this?
Name: Alex Date: July 23, 2003 at 12:32:00 Pacific
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^^ well its blocked out the manufacturer name, but im sure you can guess what it should be!
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Response Number 2
Name: Mick C Date: July 23, 2003 at 14:43:52 Pacific
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Floppy drives never realy came with a manaul anyway. What is it you want to know?
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Response Number 3
Name: SkipCox Date: July 23, 2003 at 16:26:37 Pacific
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It's a Matsus_hita drive. This thing is going to read a 1.2Mb 5¼ floppy or a 360kb 5¼ floppy. You do not need drivers to make it work.
My suggestion is to shove a known good 1.2Mb floppy in it and see if it reads it.
It must be (and likely is) defined in bios.
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Response Number 4
Name: SkipCox Date: July 23, 2003 at 16:31:29 Pacific
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look at the three blocked letters; "hit". This is a family site and you can't say matsus---a but you can say pissed.
So, let's make it a Matsushirta drive.
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Response Number 5
Name: PC Freak Date: July 24, 2003 at 01:36:36 Pacific
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LOL, that's actually pretty funny... I didn't realize this site blocked things like that... And I've never seen a company name with that in it... lol...
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Response Number 6
Name: Alex Date: July 24, 2003 at 03:43:05 Pacific
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Just got online, the thing i wanted to know about was jumper settings. When connected to the old PC it all reads fine in BIOS and is detected OK. I have some old 5.25" disks which I tried but got "General error when reading" but i'm pretty sure these I got these old disks with an old Apple II machine i was given some time back so no wonder they wont read. I think it may be a 1.2MB drive, I found some more writing on the drive, Panasonic and JU-475-3AKJ. Now I just need a manual because there are *loads* of jumpers on this thing, it looks so ancient lol.
BTW I have another problem with this 386 machine but i'll put this in a new post because its completely different.
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