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First post, by hyprthecat

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Hey there I'm trying to get a 5.25 floppy drive working.

I have a few of them. But I am unsure if the boards being picky or what. It throws me a floppy disk error (40) error

I tried with both 3.5 and 5.25 but gets the error .

I have the pins set up right but if I run without the 3.5 should I set the 5.25 as the floppy disk A?

Reply 1 of 3, by Baoran

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You need to tell detailed specs of the system. The reason for the drive not working might be elsewhere than in the drive floppy itself like motherboard, bios settings or a controller card.

Reply 2 of 3, by derSammler

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hyprthecat wrote on 2020-02-22, 03:20:

I have the pins set up right but if I run without the 3.5 should I set the 5.25 as the floppy disk A?

Given that question, I'm guessing the drives are simply not connected correctly. So a few notes:

1. You always start with A:. If you have only one drive, it's A:.
2. A: and B: is determined by the position of the drive on the cable. End-connector is drive A:, middle connector is drive B:.
3. You must set the drive type correctly in the BIOS (DD/HD). This is very important for a 5.25" drive, since they differ in tracks making the seek test fail.
4. Older 5.25" drives can be terminated. On the cable end, the termination must be present, otherwise not.

From what I understand, you can't even get a 3.5" drive work. Make sure you solve this first before messing with the 5.25" drive.

Reply 3 of 3, by hyprthecat

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I actually got it going, just some fighting with settings.

Thanks.