[MACEP] RE: Old 5.25 floppy drive hook up

[Richardson, Jim]

Found the Drive Specs and setup on a Dell Tech site. 
I do seem to have it connected correctly on the middle connector on the floppy cable........this should give the 3.5 as A and the 5.25 as B. Reversing the connection on the floppy cable gives the expected both drive lights ON during boot up
 
Canon MD7511-C6 Combo Drive
 
The 3.5 as A does show and will R&W, but no luck on B. Also cannot get B to show in the BIOS.........perhaps the MB is too recent to even support a 5.25 B drive ??
 
Jim Richardson
Technology Coordinator
Liberty High School

________________________________

From: Richardson, Jim
Sent: Tue 7/31/2007 3:08 PM
To: macep at macep.net
Subject: Old 5.25 floppy drive hook up


OK,
 
Have to admit this has me stumped. 
I have some old 5.25" floppies that my father in law saved some family data on that I want to recover and transfer to the HD.
I located a dual floppy 3.5 and 5.25 drive at Free Geek. It has a standard IDE style power connector and an old school data connection and I picked up an older floppy data cable that matches up.
 
When I install it in my Intel motherboard/P4 system only the 3.5" drive will power up.......it reads and writes fine so pretty sure the data cable is good and the combo unit is getting power.
 
But I can't get the 5.25 to light up or show up at all. Checked the BIOS settings and it only has settings for an A drive that can be set to a 5.25.........did that, no difference.
 
Any ideas ?
 
Jim Richardson
Technology Coordinator
Liberty High School

 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mesd.k12.or.us/pipermail/macep/attachments/20070731/be5e81f5/attachment.html