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