First post, by ratfink
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I have built a 486 machine, it uses a board with an Opti chipset, 3 ISA slots, 3 VLB slots and an 8 bit slot. Seems to be a QDI board according to stason.org. I've used a hard drive from another machine, which has dos on it. It boots into PC DOS 5.02 from the hard disk. I have 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. All drives are attached via a VLB interface card.
I want to copy a 3.5 disk to 5.25. Copying appears to have ruined the 3.5 disk but luckily i copied to the c: drive.
I have some apparently unused DS/DD 5.25 floppies. Two boxes from independent sources. Each one gives me a Not Ready error when I try to format it.
The 5.25 drive worked last time I used it a few months ago. The floppies are superficially in excellent unused condition. I have tried different bios settings and different cable positions - ie. 5.25 as a: or b:.
Any ideas?