Need the make and model of the floppy drive. Most older ones have jumpers, most newer 3.5" do not and need a twisted cable to drive (except for a few rare boards like Compaqs, etc). I'm guessing they are newer ones. They don't seem to have any visible jumpers. The first one is a samsung SFD-321B …

I'm thinking it has to be the mobo that is causing this issue. I dug out a second floppy drive and a two-drive cable and I still get the same thing with both the drives. If I remove the A drive assignment from the bios it works, otherwise just floppy drive fail error 40. The lights on the floppy's …

jumpers on the floppy drive, or straight cable? 'normally' floppy cable has few wires twisted between drive B and drive A connector, with drive A connector and controller connector being on the ends of the cable. The cable i'm using is for one drive only, so it only has controller-drive connectors. …

Greetings, I have a little problem getting a 3.5" floppy drive to work with my 486 build (ASUS PVI-486AP4 mobo). It's connected via a goldstar prime 2c mk3 controller card. But when set as the A drive in the bios I get a error message at bootup: "floppy disk(s) fail (40)". However, if I set it as …