Adding a 5 1/4" Diskette Drive...

David R. Greenberg grnberg at mit-caf.MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 25 01:38:55 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr23.143258.15596 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gmadise at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Gordon Madise) writes:
>I am trying to add a 5 1/4" diskette drive to a Model 80
>running AIX 1.2.  I would like to add it with the same
>functions as the 3 1/2" diskette default drive.  I have
>modified /etc/filesystems.  My diskette drive is an IBM
>internal model.  I searched all the manuals and cannot seem
>to solve this.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>Gordon Madise

I called IBM about this problem as well, and was told that AIX 1.2 doesn't
support the external 5.25" floppy, but that 1.21 (being shipped now) does.

- David



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