Floppy controller and ASUS P4T-E ?
Hi. I recently upgraded my 440BX system to a P4 system using the intel i850 chipset. The board is a ASUS P4T-E. My problem now is that I just can't get the floppy drive to work. I have tried to boot from the original floppy disks that came with SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.3, but all of them does exactly the same thing. They get to the point where I guess the floppy controller should be located, and then the kernel messages shows this: floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB floppy0:no floppy controller found The installation continues, and I can install linux without any problems. But my floppy drive just isn't working. On my old 440BX system I used the floppy drive quite a lot, so I would really like to get it working on this new system as well. I have also tried to boot directly from the SuSE CD's, but they give the exact same error. Any help will be most appreciated. Rene
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 04:40 pm, Rene Olsen wrote:
Hi.
floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB floppy0:no floppy controller found
The installation continues, and I can install linux without any problems. But my floppy drive just isn't working. On my old 440BX system I used the floppy drive quite a lot, so I would really like to get it working on this new system as well.
I have also tried to boot directly from the SuSE CD's, but they give the exact same error.
Is there by any change you disable FDD in BIOS??? In some BIOS, FDD controler can be turn off (disable). ------------------------- SuSE Professional 7.3 KDE 2.2.2
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:40:26AM +0100, Rene Olsen wrote: -> I recently upgraded my 440BX system to a P4 system using the intel i850 chipset. The -> board is a ASUS P4T-E. I did the same thing a couple months ago, and it works fine. -> My problem now is that I just can't get the floppy drive to work. I have tried to boot from -> the original floppy disks that came with SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.3, but all of them does -> exactly the same thing. They get to the point where I guess the floppy controller should -> be located, and then the kernel messages shows this: -> -> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB -> floppy0:no floppy controller found When you do a poweroff to poweron boot, does the machine flash the light on the floppy during POST? If not, make sure the power cable is properly connected and that the end of the floppy drive data cable with the twisted section goes to the floppy drive. Make sure the other end is plugged properly into the motherboard and that the red stripe on the cable is oriented with pin #1 on both the floppy drive and the motherboard connector. If you *do* see the light flash during POST but it still doesn't work, then I'd go through the BIOS settings and check the following: On the Main Menu, does your floppy show up as: "Legacy Diskette A [1.44M, 3.5in.]" ? If it doesn't, stop right here and double check that the cabling is done correctly. If you don't have a second floppy like a 5 1/4" one, it should also say "Legacy Diskette B [ none ]" Under "I/O Device Configuration" Make sure "Onboard FDC Swap A&B" is set to "no swap" "Floppy Disk Access Control [R/w]" Under the BIOS "Boot Menu" section: "1. Removable Device [ Legacy Floppy ]" "2. IDE Hard Drive [ (whatever you have) ]" Basically, you didn't tell us if your floppy works outside of Linux. Make sure it does, if it doesn't after checking the above things, then it sounds to me like you have a hardware problem, and perhaps you need to contact ASUS tech support. Michael -- "# chmod a+x /bin/laden" Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA
On 2 Jan 2002 at 5:37, Michael Nelson wrote:
-> I recently upgraded my 440BX system to a P4 system using the intel i850 chipset. The -> board is a ASUS P4T-E.
I did the same thing a couple months ago, and it works fine.
-> My problem now is that I just can't get the floppy drive to work. I have tried to boot from -> the original floppy disks that came with SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.3, but all of them does -> exactly the same thing. They get to the point where I guess the floppy controller should -> be located, and then the kernel messages shows this: -> -> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB -> floppy0:no floppy controller found
When you do a poweroff to poweron boot, does the machine flash the light on the floppy during POST? If not, make sure the power cable is properly connected
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Basically, you didn't tell us if your floppy works outside of Linux. Make sure it does, if it doesn't after checking the above things, then it sounds to me like you have a hardware problem, and perhaps you need to contact ASUS tech support.
I am sorry if I was not quite clear on that point. The floppy drive works just great in DOS and WIN98. And as I wrote I can also use the boot floppy that came with SuSE 7.3 to boot the system. I put the floppy in the drive and boot the system from that floppy. No problem at all. I then enter "linux disableapic" at the boot: prompt, or the system will simply freeze as soon as it gets to something with APIC during the boot proccess. After loading the kernel from the floppy there comes a lot of messages from the kernel about what hardware it has found. And it is here that things go wrong. It says: floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB floppy0:no floppy controller found I guess the first line it gets from the BIOS, but it is then for some reason not able to detect the floppy controller, even though I have just booted from the floppy. Hope this cleared up the misunderstandings. The floppy drive does work everywhere else but in linux. Rene
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Rene Olsen wrote: -> I am sorry if I was not quite clear on that point. The floppy drive works just great in DOS -> and WIN98. And as I wrote I can also use the boot floppy that came with SuSE 7.3 to -> boot the system. Sorry, I guess I misread that. I thought you could NOT use the boot floppy. -> problem at all. I then enter "linux disableapic" at the boot: prompt, or the system will -> simply freeze as soon as it gets to something with APIC during the boot proccess. Yeah, I had to put "append=disableapic" at the top section of my /etc/lilo.conf so that is always in effect when I boot. The P4T-E doesn't seem to like apic very much. -> After loading the kernel from the floppy there comes a lot of messages from the kernel -> about what hardware it has found. And it is here that things go wrong. It says: -> -> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB -> floppy0:no floppy controller found What happens if, after booting, you do "lsmod"? Does it show the floppy module as being inserted? If not, try "modprobe floppy". Michael -- "# chmod a+x /bin/laden" Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Rene Olsen wrote: -> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB -> floppy0:no floppy controller found BTW, mine says this during kernel boot: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 This is with a 2.4.16 kernel I compiled myself though, and I don't have floppy support as a module, but built-in instead. But my floppy did work correctly right from the beginning when I installed SuSE 7.3 Pro on this machine, so your problem is puzzling. Michael -- "# chmod a+x /bin/laden" Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA
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