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Reply 20 of 23, by bloodbat

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Is it set up properly in BIOS?
It should support it, if it's connected and set up properly...try an 1.2 floppy, see if the drive works?

Reply 21 of 23, by TeaRex

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And you have to set up BIOS according to your DRIVE type - not according to the type of DISK. So with a 1.2MB drive you set your BIOS to 1.2MB, even if you want to use a 360K disk.

Otherwise 1.2MB drives are compatible with 360K disks as long as you only use them to READ the disk. WRITING can give problems.

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Reply 22 of 23, by Glitchologteam

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TeaRex wrote:

And you have to set up BIOS according to your DRIVE type - not according to the type of DISK. So with a 1.2MB drive you set your BIOS to 1.2MB, even if you want to use a 360K disk.

Otherwise 1.2MB drives are compatible with 360K disks as long as you only use them to READ the disk. WRITING can give problems.

I already did all those thing and it do not work. I honestly don'T understand why

I have a 1.2 floppy, I dont have 360kb floppy. I tried the bios setting to 1.2mb and and I never see the light come on the drive. The the 3.5 floppy drive work thought. This is very strange

Reply 23 of 23, by bloodbat

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I assume that besides waiting for the light which could be screwed...you have tried using actual floppies with it?