19 Aug
2002
19 Aug
'02
10:46 a.m.
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
19 Aug
19 Aug
11:38 a.m.
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, 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.
It is very likely that one or more people here can help with the problem,
but not until you provide some more information:
What model Toshiba 360K floppy?
What kind of motherboard/disk controller?
What operating system are you using?
When you say "try to access the drive", what EXACTLY are you
doing? (double clicking on an icon in "My computer"? typing DIR at a DOS
prompt? "ls"?, . . . )
Have you tried to FORMAT with it?
What kind of diskette is in the drive?
What was that diskette written with?
Does the drive work on other machines?
Does your computer work with other drives?
Do you have other drives in that machine? Do they still work when that
drive is connected?
When you say that you get a "disk failure", what is the EXACT wording of
the message? If that is a Windoze message, what message do you get at the
command prompt?
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.
All of the Toshiba 360K floppy drives that I can think of use a CARD-EDGE
connector, NOT a "header"
Anybody have any clues as to what might be going wrong?
Thanks, even if nobody has any ideas. :)
-- Ross
11:40 a.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to a pentium-class PC?
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
11:53 a.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to apentium-class PC?
Joe wrote:
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
Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
and it has settings for 360K.
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
>
12:08 p.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to apentium-class PC?
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
Joe wrote:
This may seem obvious, but are you sure that the drive and cable are
functional? I've never had a problem with hooking a 360KB drive to any
PC, including my ASUS dual-athlon board.
-- Pat
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
Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
and it has settings for 360K.
12:17 p.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to apentium-class PC?
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
No. I tried two different cables, both new, but only have
one 360K drive. If anyone wants to send me a good 360K
drive
to compare against, I won't complain. ;)
I forgot to mention, I also tried it on my Linux box
with a K6-2 350. Also no dice with any of the 360K drivers.
Joe wrote:
This may seem obvious, but are you sure that the drive and cable are
functional? I've never had a problem with hooking a 360KB drive to any
PC, including my ASUS dual-athlon board.
-- Pat
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
Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
and it has settings for 360K.
3:52 p.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to apentium-class PC?
At 04:52 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
Joe wrote:
How do you know that your BIOS doesn't recognize it? I know some will auto-detect
hard drives but I've never seen one that did anything with floppy drives. All the ones
that I've seen, you simply set the type drive and that's it.
Actually when I found that W98 didn't support some old 5 1/4" formats I
assumed that it was due to W98 but it may have something to do with the BIOS. But
that's questionable since it handles some formats but not others. I wonder if it might
be something to so with the drive controller since DD and HD drives have different data
rates. Perhaps the controller doesn't support the data rate used by the DD 5 1/4"
drives? But if that's true then why would the manufacturer allow a 360k settting in
the BIOS?
It sounds like you need to contact the motherboard manufacturer and ask them about it.
The other thing you could try is to get one of the older floppy drive controller cards
that has it's own BIOS and see if it works. OTOH you probably don't even have an
ISA slot in that new MB.
Joe
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
Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
and it has settings for 360K.
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
>
20 Aug
20 Aug
4:34 a.m.
New subject: Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to a pentium-class PC?
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Joe wrote:
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.
Notwithstanding this being Microsoft we are talking about, I find that
incredibly stupid that they would drop support for older formats. It's
not like they are trying to cut down on bloat or anything, and cutting out
the tiny bit of code to handle older formats will require them to ship
another install CD.
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19 Aug
19 Aug
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
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