It seems that there is some problems with my floppy disk drive. The error message is either "General failure reading drive A" or "Fail on INT 24". What do the error messages mean?

Have you gone into your setup to make sure that the right type of Floppy drive is called out in your BIOS setup?

my floppy drives don't work. How do you put two in a computer and what arthe the jumper settings? Peez

One way to add a second floppy: You probably have a twist in the cable between the two drive connectors. If so, both drives must be jumpered for 'B:' drive. Look for a header labeled "DS0/DS1/DS2/DS3" or something similar. In this case, jumper DS1 and leave the other 3 open. If it's "DS1 thru DS4", then jumper the DS2 pins only. The real physical 'A:' gets the connector at the extreme end of the cable. The real physical 'B:' drive gets the connector in the middle of the cable. It's the twist in the cable that swaps the motor control and drive select pins between the two drives. Also: don't forget to remove the terminator (if provided) on the 'B:' drive. It will probably look like a dip chip with a color other than black and will be in a socket. Gently remove it with a flat blade screw driver or other suitable device (ideally a dip chip puller ;-). Double check that the terminator is still installed in the 'A' drive (if provided). Add the power connections. Boot - check led sequence - A: first, B: second. You'll probably get an error message from BIOS - you'll have to check CMOS anyway in setup to make sure the settings match the actual drive types (or set dip switches on the motherboard for 'dinosaurs'). Format test floppies of correct type in both drives. (Probably want to run a diagnostic test program looping a while before putting data on the disks.) Hope the infos useful. P.S.(If it's a really old machine and you're installing a 360k DSDD- crazy I know - but if you are, you want to cut pin (land/finger)36 on the drive near the connector before installing the drive.) Anyway, this is how we used to do it in the 'old' days and maybe different on these new-fangled contraptions!

I have a problem w/ my floppy disk. There was once I pulled out e floppy cable attached to the mainboard, after attching it back, I am unable to use my floppy disk drive. The light is on and the drive's running but whatever disks I placed in, it just prompt me over and over again to inset a disk thou there was one in it! Anyway I thought it was a hardware failure so I swapped drive w/ my other PC, still the same error prompt. To my dismay, when I attached the OK floppy disk back to my other PC, it started to show me error me! *groans* It just keep on telling me to format my drive A:. I've run out on ideas to fix this 2 floppy disk drives for weeks. Is there anything I can do which I didn't? BIOS? CMOS setup? Please advice. Thanks.