First post, by panda2297
Hey Everyone,
I got a "New Old Stock" TEAC FD-55FV-30-U floppy drive. I'm connecting this to a Asus cusl2-c motherboard. I'm trying many things to get this to work, but no success. For now, I'm trying to connect this 5.25 Floppy only. I have a ribbon cable that supports 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. The plan is to connect both to this machine. However, that is on hold until I get a molex adapter for my 3.25 floppy power.
No matter what I try to do, I get "Drive not Ready" error in DOS and Windows. The drive will seek briefly - maybe 1-2 seconds before it gives the error. Here are the things I troubleshooted so far
* Configured the BIOS to use 5.25 floppy 1.2 MB capacity
* I tried about 6-7 floppies in my collection such as Risk, Monopoly, and Simcity
* I can see the platter spinning when it tries to read briefly. Also light comes on when it's trying to read
* If I connect the cable backwards on the motherboard, it will constantly spin and the light stays on - which is expected from what I understand
* I tried setting jumper to DS0. Although I'm using a twisted cable end for my ribbon cable, I figured it was worth a try. The result was that I would still get drive not ready. However, the disk wouldn't even tempted to read. I switched back to ds0
* I can tell that the motherboard can at least see the floppy if I tell it to go to boot menu. I can see the floppy listed there
If I can get this to work with just the 5.25 floppy for now that would be great. I can then work on connecting the 3.5 once I get my molex conversion adapter. Any ideas?