On 1999-06-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Harsha Godavari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ! >Perhaps it helps if you change the order of the drives on the cable, >then adjust the settings in the bios. >-- >Tibor Mocsar OK, but first a couple of questions. The computer the drives don't work in, does it have onboard flopy and hard drive controllers? If so is the onboard flopy controller disabled? This should be done if you are using the plugin controller card whith the two drives. Pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
