Reply 40 of 45, by FAMICOMASTER
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No, the USB drive cannot read any disk. I tried two known good diskettes and it ended up leaving a big gouge mark in one of them on it's second attempt - Cleaned the drive and it didn't gouge a third disk, but it still wouldn't read. The drive is probably physically damaged, it's fairly old and I got it for free anyways. I've been long overdue for a new one. Know anywhere I can get a NOS Teac USB floppy drive?
I don't have XTIDE, I'm using a DTC 7287 RLL controller with it's own BIOS. The motherboard's own Award BIOS and the DTC support high density diskette drives by default.
Again, I'd try these things, but I can't get anything on the machine right now. All I can do is move things between the 286 and my Compudyne 3SL/25, the only other working machine with a diskette drive right now. It's a fairly basic 386SX laptop from the late 80s, it doesn't have an optical drive or PCMCIA or anything I could use to transfer files to it besides a diskette drive and a serial port as well. I couldn't get FastLynx to work with it either.