Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:37:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Milton W. Thomas Jr." <> | Subject | Re: floppy problem & Award BIOS floppy swap |
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Introduction: > > Recently I decided to add my 5.25" floppy drive to my new computer > (Asus board with Triton chipset). I wanted the 5.25" drive to be the > second drive, but unfortunately the connector plugged into A: was the > conector on the far end of the cable, and in the middle was the > connector(s) for drive B:. As I needed to have B: on the far end of > the cable, I thought swapping the connectors AND changing the drive > select would be a good idea. Unfortunately this ended up in a strange > situaltion, where the light on drive A: went on simultaneously with > the motor of drive B: and for the light of drive B: the motot of A: > went on. So I undid the changes... > > Now the Asus BIOS is basically an Award BIOS that allows to swap > floppy drives. As it seems this feature is not supported by hardware, > but is done in software. It works fine for DOS, but for Linux the > drive parameters seem swapped, and probably due to that I can't > successfully access any drive. Now, is there any possibility for the > floppy driver to work without the BIOS parameters, or is there a way > to find out if drives are swapped in Award BIOS? > > To really solve my problem, it seems I need a different cable... > > Ulrich > On some ASUS motherboards there are two options to swap floppy drives, if you have a swap floppy option in the chipset section of CMOS that one will work. I have used it on an ASUS 486 motherboard.
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