Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:04:01 +0100 | Subject | floppy problem & Award BIOS floppy swap |
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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
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