9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
8 a.m.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:29 -0400
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
A simpler way to beat the only one floppy problem. Find a PCI
floppy/IDE card and disable the onboard controller. Simple fix.
I used that fix at work to solve a problem mother board that lost all
floppy control due to lightining/power transient. Since everything
else worked and I needed to get to other problem systems that was a
good fix.
Allison
An even better 'fix' would be to disable just the floppy interface on
the motherboard and use an ISA SCSI interface (i.e. a 1542) of the
generation when there were versions with a floppy interface onboard
(from systems that had NO 'AT Hard Disk Controler' hardware in them at
all back in the era when '286 motherboards didn't have onboard disk
I/O.) In fact, I have at least one such a card here and should give
that a try. (added benefit would be having SCSI I/O in the system)