From: John H. Kim (jokim_at_mit.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 30 1994 - 20:20:58 EDT
In message Fri, 30 Sep 1994 12:04:17 -0400,
kress_at_ctpsun.ciw.edu (Victor Kress) writes:
> Several respondents will be interested
> to hear that bios 1.13 does not permit 32 bit access in windows, even
> with smaller partitions.
Windows 32-bit access bypasses the BIOS entirely, so no BIOS update will
fix it. Microsoft has to fix it.
I'm not quite sure how OS/2 gets around this.
> By the way, the connecter for my 170 meg drive is very slightly
> different, leading to the pin offset problem. I must have gotten an
> older 170 meg disk. I'm a little nervous about stressing the flat cable
I've had mine in there, bent, for about two months now without problems.
> ($1600 for TP disk - $565 for "raw" disk = $1000 for the little plastic
> box and cable), but it seems to work fine.
If the cable ever breaks, I'll probably make IBM fix it, seeing as they
won't sell me a new one. I'll just put the 170megger back in and claim I
opened the plastic box to see what the problem was. (Ok, maybe it won't
work, but with IBM's attitude about this I won't feel bad about trying to
dupe them like this)
Does anyone know of a source for anything resembling that little cable?
The box doesn't look like it'd be too hard to duplicate with a few pieces
of plastic and epoxy. It's the cable that's got me stumped.
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