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Floppy Drive Failure Message
Name: Michele Date: January 25, 2000 at 08:49:10 Pacific
Comment:
When I boot my machine, my floppy gets power. After all the other drives are recognized, I get a "Floppy Drive Failure" message on the screen. Tried swapping out the cable, put a new drive in -- same error message. I think it's the controller on the MB. Any other ideas ? Thanks.
Name: muni Date: January 26, 2000 at 22:07:31 Pacific
Reply:
first of all veryfing the connection to the FDD cable. Then checking power to FDD input voltage.Then you see the setup configaration, and checking Floppy Drive A:,last and final veryfing the coms battery.
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Response Number 2
Name: muni Date: January 26, 2000 at 22:10:14 Pacific
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first of all veryfing the connection to the FDD cable. Then checking power to FDD input voltage.Then you see the setup configaration, and checking Floppy Drive A:,last and final veryfing the coms battery.
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Response Number 3
Name: Andy B Date: February 25, 2000 at 08:03:05 Pacific
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The same thing actually occured to me when I recently did a BIOS update. Thank God that I had all the neccessary files on my hard drive to do a backout.
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Response Number 4
Name: Caryn Date: March 8, 2001 at 10:33:08 Pacific
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Hi Have you found a solution because I have the same problem; only I tested the FDD under DOS and it works fine. It must be a Windows problem. Any ideas.
Summary: Try the hobbes os/2 archive, it has a lot of files and drivers/updates for all sorts of hardware the problem for accessing the floppy is that a dos machine uses the bios to access it and the bios know...
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