Jose

I would guess that you have a network cable connect to the PC already,
if you do, can you back it up through the network?  I saw a tandy 386
before, I thought they has regular IDE drive, except the pins are a
little different. But, that was a while back, and I don't remember much.
Anyway, if the network works, it might be the only way for you to
backup, unless you can get the floppy drive to work or get the harddrive
to work in another computer.  Well, there is a last thing to do if the
drive is gone before you can backup.  Take it to the datarecovery
places, and have them copy the content of the drive for you.  It is not
cheap, but from what I heard, You usually can get most of the data back
(in CD).  By the way, which operation system are you running?

Constance Chang

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 23:55:26 -0400
"Jose E. Dominguez" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Good evening:
>
> I hope someone out there can help me. I have a friend that has an old
> Digital 386 running mail sorting software on a mail sorting system. His
> hard drive is beginning to show signs of wear and tear and he would like
> back up the contents and transfer them to a new PC.
>
> One of the problems is that the floppy drive is not working. I've taken
> the drive out of the Digital and installed it in another PC, used Auto
> Detect to setup the drive but I can't read it. This could very well be
> because the parameters used on the drive are not the ones that the drive
> was originally setup with. The thing is we can't get into the setup of
> the Digital PC to see the actual parameters, or check to see if the
> floppy is even setup. He was told that the problem is that the Digital
> PCs used a different format than the rest, he was also told that if he
> can find a Tandy 386 he will be able to see the drive contents because
> they use the same format. Is this true? How can we get into the setup of
> the Digital?
>
> Tomorrow I'll go take another look at the Digital and get the model
> number and any pertinent information that might be needed to solve this
> problem. Meanwhile if anyone has any ideas/suggestions to backup this
> drive I'll appreciate it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jose
>