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Floppy won't format, help?

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robisc

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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.
 
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
 
Did you try a different cable? (OR a standard known good floppy drive on the cable you're using) Does it read flash ok?
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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.
 
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.
 
You tried it on other systems and it does't work right? Doesn't that pretty much mean it's internall broken?
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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.
 
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