19 Aug
2002
19 Aug
'02
4:11 p.m.
Hi Ross,
I have a Teac 360K floppy drive installed in my Socket 7 system. It
weorks just fine, although, I'm not using the onboard floppy controller.
I accidently blew the onboard controller up with a heatsink that
wasn't glued down :-( I'm using the floppy controller on an old WD RLL
HD controller. I don't recall if I ever had a 360K floppy on the mb's
floppy controller or not. I'm running Win98 on this machine.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Ross Archer wrote:
Can't make my Toshiba 360K floppy drive work on my
Athlon or
P4 machine to save my life. I've tried every jumper setting
I can think of on the drive. The best I get is a disk
failure,
where I try to access the drive, and the LED comes on and
spins
the disk for a while, then fails.
Yes, I'm using the right cable. :) It has a 34 pin header
plug
(remember those?) that used to be standard on floppy cables
all
those years ago. Jameco still sells them. :)
Yes, I set the BIOS to 360K. Still no dice.
Anybody have any clues as to what might be going wrong?
Thanks, even if nobody has any ideas. :)
-- Ross