Floppy won't format, help?

[robisc]

I am having problems with a combo floppy and flash reader drive, it is a Mitsumi FA404, I have tried this on 2 different systems and the cable is on properly, also it is enabled in the BIOS, problem is when I am trying to access the drive with a floppy in there, it does click like it is opening the cover and teh LED lights up, I then get the message floppy must be formatted, do you want to format now? I click yes and when it tries to format after a few seconds I get the error floppy can't be formatted, I have tried multiple disks as well. So I can't access the files or format the disks, does this sound like a hardware probelm or something else? Before I RMA it back to the Egg.

 

[thorin]

Did you try a different cable? (OR a standard known good floppy drive on the cable you're using) Does it read flash ok?

Thorin

 

[robisc]

Did you try a different cable? (OR a standard known good floppy drive on the cable you're using) Does it read flash ok?

I did try different cables, also the flash portion does works OK, it obviously is a just a multi-card reader that is bundled into a floppy drive, it has 2 different USB cables.

 

[robisc]

OK, I got a new drive and same problem, any ideas?

 

[Infohawk]

What about the power supply?

 

[Yossarian]

does it use a regular twisted floppy cable for the floppy portion?

 

[robisc]

For the floppy cable, I have tried both a single rounded cable and a double twisted cable, both with the same results. For the PSU is it a Thermaltake Silent PurePower, 420W.

 

[slirp]

Sacrifice a 3.5 disk to the floppy gods. They are often appeased by this type of offering.

 

[robisc]

Sacrifice a 3.5 disk to the floppy gods. They are often appeased by this type of offering.

huh?

 

[Infohawk]

You tried it on other systems and it does't work right? Doesn't that pretty much mean it's internall broken?

 

[robisc]

You tried it on other systems and it does't work right? Doesn't that pretty much mean it's internall broken?

I tried the original drive on 2 systems, but this is a new drive so i tried it on this system first (figuring it to work) and it does exactly the same thing as the other one.