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[Yeeny]

Ok, I have a tbird 900, with 256 mgs of ram, and a biostar m7vkb mobo. I got everything installed into a nice new tower, and when I try to format, it is not finding my A drive. The light comes on, and it makes noise, but nothing comes up on the screen from the start up disk, or else, I get an I/O error, and told to remove disk and hit enter? When I am in windows, if I try to access it, it says device not ready. I have tried moving cables, switching them around, different cables, different A drives (and they both work) and different disks. I made sure it was my first boot device in bios, and now I am just going nuts. TIA for any tips you may have for me.

Fixed it, thanks!

 

[agentK]

happened to me once. turns out, it was reversed (drive to MB). it had a little loop somewhere along the cable which had to be connected the other way around.... dont know if all floppy cables are like that though. you could also check if its in 1.44 at the bios.

 

[wfbberzerker]

yes, make sure the cable that you plug into your motherboard isnt flipped upside down (i think it only goes in one way into the motherboard, but can be switched at the disk drive)

also make sure you didnt disable it in the bios

 

[mikeyd]

Make sure you have pin 1 on motherboard to pin 1 on cable - same goes for cable and drive. Also make sure you are hooking the drive to the end of the cable with the twist. If you have 2 connectors for floppy drives and 1 for the motherboard (ie. 3 connectors) use the one on the end - not the middle. The end with the twist goes to the drive. If the lite on the drive stays on all the time you just have the pins wrong. reverse the connector.

 

[Yeeny]

Thanks guys. It turns out, my floppy disks were both dead, how lucky is that? Thank you for the advice, I was going crazy!