From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 15:06:47 PST
Did you set the drive correctly in the bios? You need a special cable that has some of the cables
twisted around for the second drive. That is how it identifies floppy one and floppy two. Then you
need to make sure that the bios is set for each drive.
Let me know the results.
Ed
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--- mkow1234_at_aol.com wrote:
> After taking apart my desktop Windows 98 PC, disconnecting and reconnecting cables a billion
> times, and reboot after reboot, I still can not get the 5.25" floppy drive to work correctly!!!
> It lights up, the deiskettes spin, but that's about it. I suspect that my PC can't read the
> data because the diskettes originated in the Reagan years. Seriously, I tried using a DOS
> terminal thingie, and I still could not even read a directory of files on any of several 5.25"
> diskettes that I tried. This bites.
>
>
> I am seeking somebody in southeastern Michigan that can loan me a PC with BOTH a 3.5" and a
> 5.25" floppy drive, so that I can at least get the data on to some format that can be read by my
> laptop or my desktop (Once I put it back together and reconnect stuff). Thanks again.
>
> Matt K.
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