Hi

I have a problem with a old hack of a box.
Everytime it starts up it displays "floppy disk fail (40) on the startup screen.
I have replace the floppy drive and checked the bios and cables and all seems to be fine.
I sure I'm missing something simple.

Cheers

Bill

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is the cable on right??

make sure its connected to the last connector on the chain, cuz the one in the middle is for those old school 5 1/2 floppies.

also make sure the pin 1 is right where it is supposed to be, because unlike IDE devices, floppies can sometimes have the pin 1 away from the power connector.

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I don't know does this apply to your floppy drive, but last week I was doing the same exact thing for my friends CD-ROM drive. But the OS could never detect the drive. Then it turned out that the Secondary IDE port was busted or broken, and that computer was a dinosaur, Intel 486, 80mhz.

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Just had the same problem here last night. Check the pins! Turns out one of our pins was busted - fortunately we have a large boneyard to pull non-essential pieces such as floppy drives from.

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