8" drive on PC troubleshooting

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> Hi
>  Made a mistake and left out part of the pointer.
> The first one should have been:
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~oldboard/assembly/bios_data_area.html
>
>  Hope this didn't cause any great confusion.
> Dwight
>
> PS Thanks to Robert Greenstreet for pointing this out.

Ok, so I used debug to change the byte at 50:22 from DF to D1.  No go.  I
then tried D0: no go.  I can only assume I'm doing something wrong.

Has anyone ever actually successfully hooked an 8" drive to a PC
controller and gotten it to work?  If so, who is that person?

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