Floppy problems

[wxjunkie]

When writing to my floppy I get constant write errors, or no disk in drive errors, or even that the "door may be open"

I switched out floppy drives with another computer and still get the same problems. What's the obvious problem here? Motherboard issue?

 

[jrini]

I just had similar symptoms with one of my mainboards.
First I swapped drives -- no change in symptoms.
Second I replaced the floppy cables -- no change in symptoms.
Third I swapped CPUs -- no change in symptoms.
Now I am RMAing the mainboard.

 

[gujuguy007]

Try and check the floppy cables, make sure they are inserted right and work. Second check if bios is detecting it correctly. If that don't work then it could possibly be a motherboard issue so try to email the person you bought the product from or the mb company. That's all i can say for now.

 

[Markfw]

Most floppy drives (Teac specifically) use the "red stripe towards the power plug" rule like hard drives. There are some (Chinon I think ??) That are backwards. See if you can find pin 1 on the circuit board of the floppy, or "What brand drive do you have?" may answer the question. You get exactly those types of errors when putting the cable backwards.