Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to apentium-class PC?

From: Ross Archer <archer_at_topnow.com>
Date: Mon Aug 19 18:53:00 2002

Joe wrote:
>
> Ross,
>
> What OS are you running? I seem to recall that W98 dropped support for single sided 5 1/4" disks and some of the other older formats (320k, etc). I suspect that that's whats happened to your drive.
>
> Joe

Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either,
and it has settings for 360K.


>
> At 03:45 PM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Can't make my Toshiba 360K floppy drive work on my Athlon or
> >P4 machine to save my life. I've tried every jumper setting
> >I can think of on the drive. The best I get is a disk
> >failure,
> >where I try to access the drive, and the LED comes on and
> >spins
> >the disk for a while, then fails.
> >
> >Yes, I'm using the right cable. :) It has a 34 pin header
> >plug
> >(remember those?) that used to be standard on floppy cables
> >all
> >those years ago. Jameco still sells them. :)
> >Yes, I set the BIOS to 360K. Still no dice.
> >
> >Anybody have any clues as to what might be going wrong?
> >
> >Thanks, even if nobody has any ideas. :)
> >
> >-- Ross
> >
Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 18:53:00 BST