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On Mon, June 3, 2002, "Bill Jonas" <bill@billjonas.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:33:58PM -0400, Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com wrote:
>> On Mon, June 3, 2002, "Bill Jonas" <bill@billjonas.com> wrote:
>>> I seem to recall that Compaqs (older ones, anyway) use some sort of
>>> weird proprietary floppy drive on the IDE bus.
>>
>> Is that the LS-120 drive?
>
>No. I was a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk drive. I was working with some old
>Compaqs at the CCIL thing a couple months back and when putting a
>machine together I hooked things up wrong and it wouldn't boot. I asked
>for assistance and someone came along and redid the cabling, putting
>(IIRC) the hard disk and floppy drive on the same cable and the CD-ROM
>on a different cable. Exceedingly odd stuff, but it booted just fine
>after that.
Compaq: masters of gratuitous engineering. Their stuff does seem
to end up working, but it does it in /such/ a round-about, non-standard
(and, oh yes, proprietary) way. I don't know how many different styles of
wacky and ancient Compaq laptop power connectors are floating around the
office, for example. And don't forget to bring your TX-15 driver....
pls
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