additional floppy for 386i

Glenn Roberts gfr at cobra.mitre.org
Wed Jan 18 14:05:38 AEST 1989


> "I'm the proud new owner of a 386i/150. I'd like to add an AT style
> floppy controller and 5.25" high density drive on the AT bus for
> use as drive B: in a DOS window."

If you're running 4.0.1 you already have all the softwarwe support for an
additional 5-1/4" drive.  The Sun documentation for 4.0.1 simply says
"consult your sales representative for information on 5.25-inch diskette
drives that can be connected directly to a Sun386i workstation."  You may
be able to figure this out by trial and error or by examining the guts of
your machine.

To enable the drive simply go in to your ~/pc/setup.pc file and delete the
comment on the line:

	#B /etc/dos/defaults/diskette_b

then do a dos -s to reinitialize things.  I'm just relaying information
here - I haven't tried this.

- Glenn Roberts, The MITRE Corp., McLean VA (703) 883-6820
  gfr at cobra.mitre.org



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