Hi hows it going.

I have been trying to figure out a way to access the floppy drive (A
drive) with this little thing I got from Compaq when I bought a compaq
armada m700

basically all I do is plug the Floppy drive into the LPT port on my
laptop when I want to access a floppy disk. I tried doing this with an
ordinary computer system (not the laptop) and it doesnt work. I dont
understand why it doesnt so I am wondering if you guys might have some
insight into what to do.

I have had trouble installing an ordinary floppy drive into the system
using the cabling ie using the floppy drive that would normally come
with a pc but it isnt working so I thought hey lets give it a try and
no it doest work. There must be a way if it can be done with a laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated


Many thanks

David!