First post, by Vaylo
Hi,
so today i bought a new FDD so that i could finally throw away the old rusty (literally) drive that was with the 486 since like 1996. The old model is Mitsumi D359T3, new one is D359M3. As mentioned in the subject PC refuses to boot with the new drive and refuses to boot without any floppy drives connected. I understand the latter - that's a matter of setting up boot preferences in BIOS. But what's the deal with the new drive?
I noticed there are two difference between the two drives
- old one has all the pins on the IDE connector, new one is missing one pin but it's not like it's broken it has never been there
- old one has some jumpers that you can move around, new drive doesn't appear to have any jumpers
So what makes the old one so special (except for 30 year long bond with the rest of the machine) that the PC won't boot with out it?
BTW mobo is Zida 4DPS v2.1, AMD DX4-100.
Thanks for your advices in advance.