Floppy Drive

[attilathehun1]

I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop PC,
scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy diskettes
I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the same
problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS and
saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes
except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But, then
the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from
normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end
connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung
hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only when
I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,
Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy drive
not working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1
attilathehun1

 

[Jerry]

I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop
PC,
scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy
diskettes
I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the
same
problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS
and
saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes
except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But,
then
the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from
normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end
connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung
hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only
when
I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,
Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy
drive
not working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, attilathehun1
attilathehun1

In many current systems sold without floppies, the floppy has to be enabled
in the bios. Why on earth would you screw with the jumpers on your hard
drives to try and get a floppy working? Also, if you don't know what option
in the bios you changed from disable to auto, I would suggest you write
setting down on a piece of paper before you mess with them.

 

[Onsokumaru]

You really sound like you don't have a clue.

There is no cable select for floppies, and you enable the FDD in the BIOS
under legacy diskette, or Drive A:, where you must speciffy the density of
the disks you are using.

The floppy ribbon has a red stripe on it. This end must be at pin one on
both the FDD and the motherboard connections. Sometimes they do no match.

You might need to select "swap floppy" in the BIOS. You can try this if the
FDD drive light stays on.

Don't forget to plug in the power.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I installed an almost new floppy drive into this HP pavilion 503n desktop PC,
scraped together DIY kinda, and now it's not recognizing any floppy diskettes
I put into it. I uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it but still the same
problems. I did get it working properly 2 days ago when I went into BIOS and
saved the changes, which weren't any, really. I didn't make any changes
except put something on Auto, from Disable. I think the USB Legacy. But, then
the same thing started happening when I changed the parallel cables from
normal to cable select cables, the ones with the small hole near the end
connector. Anyways, after doing that and moving the jumpers on the Samsung
hard drive to cable select position the OS wasn't being recognized. Only when
I changed the jumper back to the master position did the operating system,
Windows XP Home, come back. But, the same problem again with the floppy drive
not working.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Are these floppies that were created under a previous version of
Windows or DOS? If so, your problem is very likely the Media
Descriptor byte issue described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060