Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 08:57:23 +0200 | Subject | Re: floppy problem & Award BIOS floppy swap |
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On 17 Apr 96 at 15:37, Milton W. Thomas Jr. wrote:
> > 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.
Thank you for this tip! I'll try it...
Ulrich
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