Hi All,
I have a Pentium motherboard that refuses to read and write to my Exabyte
Eagle TR-3 drive. I think it is because of my floppy controller, but I'm
looking for a little reassurance before I go out and buy one of the
accelerator cards.
Ftape works fine with my old Gateway 2000 486 motherboard that has a
"post-1991 82077" floppy controller, however it will not work properly on
my generic 430FX chipset Pentium motherboard with an "8272A" controller.
With the Pentium board I can fast forward and rewind the tape, but reading
and writing just won't work. The only variable here is that the
motherboards were swapped, everything else including the tape drive and
ftape build stayed the same.
Is it possible that the newer Pentium board actually has an inferior floppy
controller? Has anyone else experience problems like this with an 8272A
FDC? If the 8272A is indeed the problem, could someone please recommend an
inexpensive alternative?
Sincerely,
Dave Horton
