On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:03:33PM +0200, Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
> Ron Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have been having trouble getting my Colorado 350 floppy
> > tape drive to work since it got moved to a new box with an
> > ASUS P5A-B m/b and an AMD K6-2/350 CPU. After playing
> > around with various things, I thought perhaps there wa just
> > something about the onboard FDC that the tape drive didn't
> > like. So I disabled the onboard FDC, put an FDC in the ISA
> > bus, and it works. Any of you hardware gurus have any idea
> > why this might be so?
>
> Well, no idea from my side. Other comments?
I'm very much a software guy, and I may be completely wrong here, and
not know what I'm talking about :-)
Perhaps it has something to do with the slot the card is in? The
onboard FDC will be masquerading as some sort of PCI or ISA card,
right? I remember reading or hearing something about different slots
having different priorities, and behaving differently?
So if there's a resource conflict for whatever reason, perhaps the ISA
slot you put it in gets there first?
I may be completely off my rocker here :-)
Robie.
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