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Floppy Driver works in VMWare but not on a real PC

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2002 12:00 am
by BeurreSoft
Hello,
I'm trying to program a floppy driver.
I used the Intel-Floppy-Instruction-Sheet....
when I tried my floppy driver in VMWare everything
worked fine, but after starting it on a real PC,
there were the following errors (read from status ports):
1. Execution started but exited abnormally
- Sector ID not found
- Wrong Cylinder detected

... I set the cylinder and head to 0 and the sector to 1.

... as I said in VMWare it works ;-)

Could anyone help me?

Thanks
Beurre

RE:Floppy Driver works in VMWare but not on a real PC

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2002 12:00 am
by Guest
Ok, I solved the problem...
The real disk-drive needs a recalibration after switching on the motor, the VMWare virtual drive doesn't

Thanks
Beurre