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Hi,

Now here is an interesting problem. I have two 2402A Tekmates, for my 2440
and 1430a. I was using one of them with an USB floppy emulator, which works
just fine. I have actually never used the floppy drives (both have HDDs),
but I finally did find my stack of 3 1/2 floppies, so I wanted to try and
use the floppy on the other one, as it is way more col thank the cheep USB
emulator :-), and it did not work. It accesses it, but then gets an
abort-retry-fail. Ok, no problem, probably the drive is bad. Swapped to an
other one, the one that actually came out of the other Tekmate, when I
installed the USB drive. That didn't work either. Hmmm. Get a 3rd drive, no
luck. Now let's try the floppies in the other Tekmate. They don't work
either!

I really don't believe that I have 3 failed drives, and the controllers are
OK, because the emulator works. Scoping the drive line don't show anything
out of order, I see the data coming, drive rotates, head moves, etc. So the
only thing I can think is that there has to be some BIOS or whatever
setting about the size/type that was lost when the NVRAM battery failed. I
have hacked in external batteries, so that is ok. Obviously, the drive is
set up as a 1.4M drive in the setup.

Am I missing something? Is there any other setting that needs to be there?
I really don't believe that all 3 drives are bad, but unfortunately I don't
have any other means to test. I have already swapped cables, drives, even
controller chips.
Not a big problem, but it is bugging me now.

Thanks,

Szabolcs