First post, by Cloaked Alien
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My end goal here is to have more than two floppies (I want to have my 360kb + 1.44mb + gotek so I can access my physical media as well as avoiding wearing out my floppies)
Anyways I did some research and rummaging and I found that I had an AHA-1540B/42B (ISA SCSI with a bios from '88) that actually has an on-board standard FDC controller.
Supposedly it supports all the four standard floppy types, I have read the manual and reset all the jumpers (Making sure BIOS and FDC are enabled) but no matter what I do I can't seem to get it to detect any floppies.
BIOS shows up and scans for SCSI drives, so the card is working as much.
But I can't seem to get any life-signs from the FDC portion, not even if I disable the motherboard FDC or fiddle around with jumper settings.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here. I was assuming I could just connect them and configure the controller somehow (bios menu or something) but everything seems to be jumper based and I can't find any info on how to select the types (360, 1.44, etc). Even assuming it just auto-detects and configures drives I get no additional drives when in DOS. I'm not using any software drivers, could the FDC part possibly require that? (Then it wouldn't support booting, which is kinda odd in my book)