Stop me if you've heard this one before....

I was cleaning out my garage and found an ancient RLL drive I haven't used in years, along with (wonder of wonders) its accompanying controller card.

I hooked it up to an old 486 board I have and, to my surprise, it worked perfectly (miracle of miracles)!

It's got some stuff on there I forgot I had (including a really cool ANSI-based dungeon game and some old writings of mine), and I would like to download this information, but I ran into a snag:

I cannot get it to work with my 1.44MB 3.5 drive, it only wants to see a 360K 5.25 drive, for which I possess neither drive nor disks (can you still buy those?).

Failing that, I tried to gang it with my existing brand-new multigig drive, but I cannot slave the new drive to the old one because the old one boots to DOS 3.1, which will not recognize a 6 gig drive, and I cannot slave the old to the new because I cannot figure out which DIP switches to throw in which order to make it do so.

The old drive is a Mitsubishi MR535-U00, RLL, 977 cylinders, 5 heads, and 26 sectors. There are two sets of DIP switch banks; Bank 1 has 6 unlabelled switches, all set to ON. Bank 2 has 8 switches, labelled:

DS1: ON
DS2: OFF
DS3: OFF
DS4: OFF
R: ON
D3: OFF
D2: OFF
D1: OFF

Is there something I could do? I'm terrified of throwing switches willy-nilly lest I crash the drive and lose all the info I desire.

I should perhaps add that this drive is itself partitioned into two pieces.

PS: I also found my Epson FX-85 that I bought when it was state-of-the-art, and it not only works, but I found a brand-new ribbon cartridge still in the wrapper! Indiana Jones, eat your heart out!

I would appreciate any help on this matter. Thank you.

I'll send you the dungeon game if you help me!

Peter Arning
aka
!Pitr

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[This message has been edited by parning (edited April 25, 2000).]