First post, by GabrielKnight123
This Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 AT motherboard has a problem with a connected 3 1/2 1.44mb floppy drive its set in the bios to 1.44mb 3 1/2 it can read a floppy but it cant copy or write to it it says "sector not found reading drive A Fail on INT 24", I am using good floppy disks I tried scandisk on a good one with a surface scan after initial checks and it said the FAT media byte was missing so it replaced it and there were no bad sectors, the files were still on the floppy so I tried to copy to and from it but with the same error, I formatted the floppy with just "format a:" and it formatted it at 360K and not 1.44mb but I could read, write and copy files to and from it, I tried specifying 1.44 like "format a: /f:1.44" but it said "parameters not compatible, format terminated".
I looked over the motherboard and saw underneath the board are two resistor banks soldered to the secondary IDE and a wire that goes to another resistor bank on the parts side of the motherboard which also connects to the floppy connector, does anyone know what this mod is for and if I removed it would it fix my floppy problem? I haven't connected anything to the secondary IDE yet so I don't know if it has problems too but the primary IDE with a hard drive is working fine.
I've tried a known working floppy drive but it doesn't like being connected to this board when I do a simple "A:" the drive groans and moans and wont work