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Troubleshooting

Floppy Disk Drive Installation

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Troubleshooting

Use this troubleshooting guide if you encounter problems installing or using the 
floppy disk drive.

If . . .

Then . . .

You cannot read files on a disk in 
the drive.

Check that the interconnect cable is installed 
correctly and completely attached to the 
floppy drive and the X terminal.

The WinDD ICA client window 
“hangs” when you attempt to 
connect network drive.

This typically happens when the local print 
spooler or net to port access is enabled. You 
(or your system administrator) can disable 
them by doing the following:
1. Reset the X server from the Setup window.
2. Modify the 

xp.cnf

 file to disable the net to 

port access or the local print spooler. Then 
restart the NC.

The floppy drive will not format a 
disk.

Be sure that you use only the “Format” 
button at the bottom of the WinDD ICA 
client log on window or select “Format” 
from the Options menu in the WinDD menu 
bar when attempting to format a disk. 
Do not use the 

Copy Disk

Label Disk

, or 

Format

 

Disk

 selections in the Disk menu of 

the Windows File Manager. These are for use 
with the application server’s A: drive; they 
have no effect on a disk in your floppy and 
may destroy data on any disk in the servers 
A: drive.

Summary of Contents for NC200

Page 1: ...Floppy Disk Drive Installation Guide Version 1 1 NC200 NC400 and NC900...

Page 2: ...86 1985 by Bigelow Holmes Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow Holmes Trademarks Network Computing Devices is a registered trademark of Network Computing Devices Inc WinDD and NCBridge are trad...

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Page 4: ...iv Safety Summary Terms In This Document CAUTION statements identify conditions of practices that can result in damage to the equipment or other property...

Page 5: ...e is a new local floppy manager client that allows the user to transfer files between a UNIX host and the local floppy disk Operation of this client is described later in this document Before you begi...

Page 6: ...ive In addition your NC must be operating with NCBridge Software Version 3 2 or later Connecting the Drive 1 Connect the drive to the NC s parallel port Refer to the drawing in Figure 1 Look at the pl...

Page 7: ...Connecting the Drive Floppy Disk Drive Installation 3 Figure 1 Connecting the Floppy Drive to the NC 9296 1 I O...

Page 8: ...ach time you log on until you specifically disconnect the drive from the network Remember that you have exclusive access to the floppy drive connected to your NC Other users cannot read from or write...

Page 9: ...on You can use this letter or select a different one by pulling down on the button in the block or at the end of the block Figure 4 Connect Network Drive Dialog Box 5 Enter Client A in the Path field...

Page 10: ...a feature of the WinDD ICA client To format a disk click the Disk button at the bottom of the WinDD login window Figure 5 or select Disk from the Options menu in the WinDD menu bar Figure 6 In either...

Page 11: ...Formatting a Disk Floppy Disk Drive Installation 7 Figure 5 WinDD ICA Client Log On Window Figure 6 WinDD ICA Client Options Menu Log On Configure Disk Exit...

Page 12: ...Floppy Disk Drive Installation 8 Floppy Disk Drive Installation Figure 7 Disk Formatting Menu...

Page 13: ...7C XP119C XP119M XP200 XP350 XP400 NC200 NC400 and NC900 series products To start the LFM on an NC ensure that the floppy drive is connected to the parallel port of the NC and powered up Then for the...

Page 14: ...Floppy Disk Drive Installation 10 Floppy Disk Drive Installation Figure 8 Local Floppy Manager Client...

Page 15: ...our system administrator can disable them by doing the following 1 Reset the X server from the Setup window 2 Modify the xp cnf file to disable the net to port access or the local print spooler Then r...

Page 16: ...Floppy Disk Drive Installation 12 Floppy Disk Drive Installation...

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