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Floppy drive trouble...

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TripperJoe

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Ok, for some reason my floppy drives hate me. The only way I can get it to show up is to have it set to B:\ and have both A:\ and B:\ installed in the bios. So now it works allright, but it looks ugly and if I accidently click on the A: drive it takes awhile for it to time out. So here is the configuration...

Bios-
Enabled both Floppy A and Floppy B
Cable-
Closer female connection used (not twisted at end)

If I try just Floppy A in the bios it will detect in windows but time out looking for a disk
If I try just Floppy B in the bios it won't detect it in windows
Swapping doesn't work either 🙁
Any ideas?


 
Lemme draw a picture...

mobo...........floppy................nothing

[]---------------[]---------------twist[]

(Cable de l'art)
 
Isn't the connection after the twist for the 5.25 drive? Regardless, when I tried it, it wouldn't read the floppy disk. Wanted to reformat every disk I put in and then wouldn't format it...
 
The connector after the twist is for the A drive, before the twist is for the B drive. Don't blieve me? Search google for "floppy install twist" or something.

5.25" drives have a card ege connector while the 3.5" drives have the pin connector (34 pins? something like that)

I wouldn't do my testing in windows, other factors could be at fault.

Make sure your drive is on the end connector, set your BIOS for a 3.5" 1.44 on A: and nothing on B:, and set to boot off a floppy before the hard drive...then try booting off a bootable floppy like a win98 boot disk.

If it don't work in DOS it could be the cable, power connector, drive, or motherboard.
 
As well as putting the floppy drive after the twist, remember that the red stripe on the ribbon
goes to the LEFT-hand side of the connection as you look at it from the back - just the opposite
of the way a ribbon cable connects to a HD or CDROM. Just a legacy from way-back-when.
 
Not necessarily, some drives are either way (but only one way is correct). Best to look for a tiny "1" or triangle to mark the stripe side. It is easy to get used to doing it one way, and that is how I occasionally put the cable on backwards. 😉
 
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