On 10 Jun 99, at 20:41, Harsha Godavari wrote:
>I would appreciate any suggestions with this problem. Two floppy
>drives (1.44 & 1.2 meg) do not read or boot from bootable floppies
>while attached to a 486 system. The drives are accessed (lights come
>appropriately, Dir A: or Dir B:) but the data is not read and I get
>the message Abort,Retry,Fail?
>
>However both the drives work fine when moved to another system (a
>386).The multi I/O card and the ribbon cable are also defect-free.
>
>What can I do to get them to work in that 486 system. BTW a couple
>of 360k drives also gave the same response !
Well, if you have verified that the drives work in another system,
and that the cable and multi I/O card work in another system, and
that the 486's CMOS is set correctly, then I can only suspect an
IRQ conflict of some sort. Is there a built-in floppy controller on the
486's motherboard?
Anthony J. Albert
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