19 Aug
2002
19 Aug
'02
11:40 a.m.
Ross,
What OS are you running? I seem to recall that W98 dropped support for single sided 5
1/4" disks and some of the other older formats (320k, etc). I suspect that that's
whats happened to your drive.
Joe
At 03:45 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you 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