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sid6.8
Tablet PC Ponderer
USA
72 Posts
My Tablet PCs: |
 Posted - Jan 21 2005 : 1:01:41 PM
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I have a floppy drive for my 3400, it seems to work fine in windows (on multiple 3400's), but when attempting to use it as the boot device i hear it engage then get the following error:
Disk I/O error
Replace the Disk and Press Any Key
I have tried several trusted boot disk images that I mastered in the past, created on several machines, including one of the 3400s with the floppy drive in question running NT4. As well as a few newly mastered ones, although my daughters are tired of me kicking them off elmo to use the command prompt on our last 98 machine in the house.
Is there anything special about the 3400 external floppy i have missed, such as the work/don't work setting? I have confirmed that Floppy is enabled in the BIOS.
I know floppies aren't the most robust media, but has every one in the whole house gone bad, bad for booting, fine for sneakernet?
Anyone seen this before?
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Northern_Rebel
Tablet PC Philosopher
USA
334 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Toshiba 3505, Fujitsu Stylistic ST4110,
Acer C100,
Fujitsu LT-C500,
Fujitsu ST3400S (indoor/outdoor). |
Posted - Jan 21 2005 : 6:19:13 PM
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| Sid do you have the actual fujitsu floppy drive? Others won't work as a boot device. It has to be the one that connects to the floppy port on the right side of the 3400. |
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sid6.8
Tablet PC Ponderer
USA
72 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Fujitsu Stylistic 3400
Barbie(tm) Magnadoodle |
Posted - Jan 22 2005 : 09:52:07 AM
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Ah HA!
It is a Fujitsu, and plugs into the floppy drive port on the side of the tablet...
But seems to be for a stylistic 1000, p/n FMWFD2
I hadn't even looked at the label on the bottom, I figured if it plugged into the proprietary plug and worked in windows it must be correct.
Bummer
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Dozer
Tablet PC Thinker
173 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 (Someday I'll have a *REAL* TabletPC!) |
Posted - Jan 22 2005 : 10:58:12 AM
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| There may be another issue going on here somewhere. According to Fujitsu's web site, the part number for the 3400's floppy drive is FPCFDD02. This is also the part number listed for the 2300 and the 1000. The FMWFD2 part number returns a "not found" message when searched for on their site. I have the FMWFD2 which works fine with the 2300, and I know that several vendors are selling that drive for use with the 3400. |
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Northern_Rebel
Tablet PC Philosopher
USA
334 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Toshiba 3505, Fujitsu Stylistic ST4110,
Acer C100,
Fujitsu LT-C500,
Fujitsu ST3400S (indoor/outdoor). |
Posted - Jan 22 2005 : 11:04:16 AM
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| SID my floppy for my 3400 says Stylistic 1000, model #FMWFD2 and it works to boot my 3400 so like Dozer said there is something else wrong. |
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Dozer
Tablet PC Thinker
173 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 (Someday I'll have a *REAL* TabletPC!) |
Posted - Jan 22 2005 : 1:09:02 PM
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| I wonder if the drive is slightly out of alignment? Have you tried running Scandisk on one of the boot disks on the 3400? |
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megatron
Tablet PC Trainee
Canada
6 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Two Fujitsu Stylistic 3400's |
Posted - Jan 24 2005 : 07:17:35 AM
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| I just bought a model #FMWFD2 drive and it works fine on my 3400.I checked the accessories section of the fujitsu website to determine if it was compatible before I purchased it, and yes, on the back of the drive it says it's for a ST1000. I think your floppy drive might be going bad, I have had the type of errors you mention happen on my desktop PC's after the drives get old. If you can fix it go ahead, but I wouldn't fight with it too much, I bought mine on Ebay brand new for about $5.00. |
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bhiga
Tablet PC Trainee
USA
2 Posts
My Tablet PCs: Stylistic 1000 (all varieties)
Stylistic 2300 (transreflective)
Stylistic 3400 (indoor/outdoor) |
Posted - Feb 05 2005 : 09:35:45 AM
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I have the same floppy drive - it worked fine for me to install Windows 2000 on my 3400 and also worked fine for me installing Windows 2000 on my 2300 as well.
Try formatting a disk in the Fujitsu floppy, write some data to it and see if you can read/write to it on another machine. It might be out-of-alignment with respect to the other floppy drives you're using. 3.5-inch drives don't go out as often as 5.25-inch drives did, but they still can.
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