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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:10:55 -0800
From: Mark Smith <msmith@3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Can you try a different (external) floppy controller?  The UMC8669F on
> the P55T2P4 is known to be not bug-compatible with the NE765.  While
> Bruce Evans found a suitable workaround to at least get the diskettes
> working on it, i'm afraid nobody has tested floppy tape access on
> these FDCs yet.

How is the floppy controller for the P55TVP4? notice the V inplace of 
the 2.  On a similar note, I saw that the serial chips were also broken
on the P55t2p4, how are they on the V version?

Thanks

Mark