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No drive working

Open wlpppaul opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Hello,

i get "Drive not ready" on all drives i try to connect. I tried different cables with a 1.44MB and a 1.2MB Drive. When accessing a: or b: the correct drive responds and lights up. But only two anounce drive not ready after some seconds.

I tried in a P2 and a 386sx.

Do you have and idea what could be the reason?

Thank you :-)

wlpppaul avatar Nov 13 '22 17:11 wlpppaul

A couple of things to check:

  • Do you see the Multi-Floppy BIOS Extension messages/prompts when the system boots? If not, check that you have flashed that to the Flash ROM, and properly configured the ROM address
  • Disable floppies in the system BIOS
  • Disable the on board FDC if any (usually on P2 boards came with one)
  • Of course, it could be a faulty FDC... if nothing else helps, try swapping it with another FDC

BTW, I haven't tested Monster FDC on much newer systems (e.g. P2), and there might be some issues there...

skiselev avatar Nov 16 '22 15:11 skiselev

No response or reproducer. Closing the issue. Feel free to reopen if you have more information

skiselev avatar Sep 18 '23 15:09 skiselev