Gotcha, thanks for the info. Its possible the mobo floppy controller is broken. I haven't finished troubleshooting it yet.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 18:05, Andrew <aj1ing...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 3) I havnt worked enough in getting the floppy working on the i386, i > think it has to do with a nonstandard ide connection. > > Standard floppy drives are *not* IDE. They have their own connection > (34-way not 40-way) and this is attached to a floppy controller, not > an IDE controller. > > There is no resemblance and no connection between the floppy and IDE > controllers. It is just that both use ribbon cables, but of differing > widths. > > > N.B. There is a partial exception: "superfloppy" or "floptical" drive > use IDE. These take different disks, such as 20MB or 120MB disks, but > can read the old style of disks. > > Some RISC workstations did not have a floppy controller and so if they > were fitted with the optional, and rare, floppy drive, these were SCSI > floppies that only work on a SCSI card. But no PC-compatible I recall > ever used SCSI floppy drives, because they were far too expensive. > > > The bios doesnt give an error when the connector is upside down, and it > sees the drive > > If a floppy is connected with the cable in the wrong orientation, the > classic giveaway is that the floppy drive's access light will be > permanently illuminated. > > > -- > Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Thank you very much, Andrew Ingram Fainman Group Graduate Student, UCSD Phone: (831)-320-3531 aj1ing...@gmail.com
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