ISA floppy controller.

[Guest]

I'm trying to use an "ancient" ISA floppy controller with Windows XP Professional (or Windows 2000 professional, by the way). This on an "old
Intel SE440BX-2 (Seattle II) motherboard (latest 2000 P17 BIOS)

The controller has a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drives attached (the 5.25" driv
support is the reason to use an ISA floppy controller on the Seattle on
floppy only mainboard), the mainboard floppy controller is disabled, bot
drives are correctly defined at the BIOS level

Both drives works without a flaw under DOS, Windows 98 (non ACPI enabled), Linux kernel 2.2.14. So I know the basic hw is ok

Now the hard time come: I have a Windows 2000 Professional installed on this machine, used to work with a Seattle I mainboard (SE440BX-I)

Windows 2000 Professional do not handle both floppy drives: I always ge
"Device Busy" on both drives. The same is true for a Windows XP Professional installed on the same machine. I mean, the floppy controller is recognized, the floppy drives are available, the floppy lights on when I access the diskettes, but I always obtain a "Device Busy" or "Device not ready" error

I did some debugging and I noted that switching the Windows 2000 HAL did the trick. The HAL installed is "ACPI with Power Management". I switched to the "Standard PC" HAL and ... wow! ... floppy drives worked correctly as expected

I didn't already swicthed the Windows XP HAL, but I strongly suspect I'll obtain the same result

Anybody knows why the ACPI HAL do not handle the ISA controller? May be that the ACPI HAL is handling the mainboard controller even if it is disabled at the BIOS level (I tried both PNP ON and OFF in the bios, Power Management ON and OFF)

Is there any way to have ACPI/PowerMgmt support and an ISA floppy controller working at the same time with this hw configuration

I already scanned the MS KB and the Usenet NewsGroup and I found only some references to similar problems in the Newsgroup, but not in the MS KB. It may be that my hw is damaged in some way? It seems strange to me that is working with the "Standard PC" HAL in this case. There are no references at all in the MS KB

Thank in advance for any help or suppport, Peppe

P.S. You may contact me at the following "encripted" mail address "peppe at vitillaro dot org).

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Need separate driver! ISA support limited in XP.

Y.

I'm trying to use an "ancient" ISA floppy controller with Windows XP

Professional (or Windows 2000 professional, by the way). This on an "old"

Intel SE440BX-2 (Seattle II) motherboard (latest 2000 P17 BIOS).

The controller has a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drives attached (the 5.25" drive
support is the reason to use an ISA floppy controller on the Seattle one
floppy only mainboard), the mainboard floppy controller is disabled, both
drives are correctly defined at the BIOS level.

Both drives works without a flaw under DOS, Windows 98 (non ACPI enabled),

Linux kernel 2.2.14. So I know the basic hw is ok.

Now the hard time come: I have a Windows 2000 Professional installed on

this machine, used to work with a Seattle I mainboard (SE440BX-I).

Windows 2000 Professional do not handle both floppy drives: I always get
"Device Busy" on both drives. The same is true for a Windows XP

Professional installed on the same machine. I mean, the floppy controller is
recognized, the floppy drives are available, the floppy lights on when I
access the diskettes, but I always obtain a "Device Busy" or "Device not
ready" error.

I did some debugging and I noted that switching the Windows 2000 HAL did

the trick. The HAL installed is "ACPI with Power Management". I switched to
the "Standard PC" HAL and ... wow! ... floppy drives worked correctly as
expected.

I didn't already swicthed the Windows XP HAL, but I strongly suspect I'll obtain the same result.

Anybody knows why the ACPI HAL do not handle the ISA controller? May be

that the ACPI HAL is handling the mainboard controller even if it is
disabled at the BIOS level (I tried both PNP ON and OFF in the bios, Power
Management ON and OFF)?

Is there any way to have ACPI/PowerMgmt support and an ISA floppy

controller working at the same time with this hw configuration?

I already scanned the MS KB and the Usenet NewsGroup and I found only some

references to similar problems in the Newsgroup, but not in the MS KB. It
may be that my hw is damaged in some way? It seems strange to me that is
working with the "Standard PC" HAL in this case. There are no references at
all in the MS KB.

Thank in advance for any help or suppport, Peppe.

P.S. You may contact me at the following "encripted" mail address "peppe

at vitillaro dot org).

 

[Guest]

Ehm ... this not an answer ... the same happens with Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Standard PC HAL "do handle" the floppy controller with the native driver.

Furthermore I'm not aware of any Legacy ISA floppy Windows XP driver. Do you?

Peppe.

 

[Richard Urban]

This is why he said you need a driver. There may, in fact, be none
available. Time to upgrade that old dog!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

Ehm ... this not an answer ... the same happens with Windows 2000 and

Windows 2000 Standard PC HAL "do handle" the floppy controller with the
native driver.