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Update on Floppy problem
I had posted my floppy problem in several places and everybody pretty much
had the same thing to say that I needed the older 3 connector cable. What they didn't realize was that in my post I had stated that I was having a problem with the bios, I had already physically plugged it in. I have been in contact with Asus about this problem and thought that you should all see the solution they gave to me. [5/17/2004 1:52:00 PM - lee] Sir unfortunately the bios for this board does not support 2 floppy's this was taken over to allow access to smart card readers and other usb mass storage devices.Please do not respond to this email if you have any further questions please contact our tech support office at 502-995-0883 and one of our technicians will be happy to answer any questions you may have. When I called the number and got to talk to a person he stated that only one floppy has become the standard. So, check your boards lads. -- Vic remove no........spam to reply |
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In article osKqc.32438$bS1.29970@okepread02, "Vic"
wrote: I had posted my floppy problem in several places and everybody pretty much had the same thing to say that I needed the older 3 connector cable. What they didn't realize was that in my post I had stated that I was having a problem with the bios, I had already physically plugged it in. I have been in contact with Asus about this problem and thought that you should all see the solution they gave to me. [5/17/2004 1:52:00 PM - lee] Sir unfortunately the bios for this board does not support 2 floppy's this was taken over to allow access to smart card readers and other usb mass storage devices.Please do not respond to this email if you have any further questions please contact our tech support office at 502-995-0883 and one of our technicians will be happy to answer any questions you may have. When I called the number and got to talk to a person he stated that only one floppy has become the standard. So, check your boards lads. -- Vic remove no........spam to reply I didn't want to respond to your post originally, because I don't have a datasheet for the SuperI/O chip that is on your board. Some other chips from the same manufacturer, multiplex SIR/CIR infrared pins with the control pins needed for a second floppy. If the vendor offers SIR/CIR, then there is no control available for a second floppy. To make this work, you would need a couple things. One would be hooking up some pin(s) from SIR/CIR to the floppy cable. The second would be modifying the BIOS for two floppy drives. I think the BIOS modification is the thing that will stop this project in its tracks. (The BIOS has to be designed to prevent conflicts between the use of the pins for either Infrared or Floppy use - the pin function type is selected by the BIOS at POST.) You might consider a USB floppy drive as a substitute for one of the drives. You might not be able to boot from it, but at least you could copy files to it. (I tried looking for a PCI card floppy controller, but a quick search didn't turn any up.) I wouldn't say that "one floppy is the standard". It is a matter of which SuperI/O chip a board uses, and what priorities the marketing team have. I don't think too many people want a slow infrared interface (the Asus SIR/CIR cannot do the 4Mbit speed used by some printers), so I cannot imagine this decision to be very bright. As in my floppy suggestion above, you can buy a USB to infrared dongle, if you want 4Mbit/sec IR on the computer. The SIR/CIR is kind of a waste. HTH, Paul |
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There should be all kinds of pci bus based controller cards available. I'm
at a loss to think why you would want 2 floppies but I suppose you have your reasons. "Paul" wrote in message ... In article osKqc.32438$bS1.29970@okepread02, "Vic" wrote: I had posted my floppy problem in several places and everybody pretty much had the same thing to say that I needed the older 3 connector cable. What they didn't realize was that in my post I had stated that I was having a problem with the bios, I had already physically plugged it in. I have been in contact with Asus about this problem and thought that you should all see the solution they gave to me. [5/17/2004 1:52:00 PM - lee] Sir unfortunately the bios for this board does not support 2 floppy's this was taken over to allow access to smart card readers and other usb mass storage devices.Please do not respond to this email if you have any further questions please contact our tech support office at 502-995-0883 and one of our technicians will be happy to answer any questions you may have. When I called the number and got to talk to a person he stated that only one floppy has become the standard. So, check your boards lads. -- Vic remove no........spam to reply I didn't want to respond to your post originally, because I don't have a datasheet for the SuperI/O chip that is on your board. Some other chips from the same manufacturer, multiplex SIR/CIR infrared pins with the control pins needed for a second floppy. If the vendor offers SIR/CIR, then there is no control available for a second floppy. To make this work, you would need a couple things. One would be hooking up some pin(s) from SIR/CIR to the floppy cable. The second would be modifying the BIOS for two floppy drives. I think the BIOS modification is the thing that will stop this project in its tracks. (The BIOS has to be designed to prevent conflicts between the use of the pins for either Infrared or Floppy use - the pin function type is selected by the BIOS at POST.) You might consider a USB floppy drive as a substitute for one of the drives. You might not be able to boot from it, but at least you could copy files to it. (I tried looking for a PCI card floppy controller, but a quick search didn't turn any up.) I wouldn't say that "one floppy is the standard". It is a matter of which SuperI/O chip a board uses, and what priorities the marketing team have. I don't think too many people want a slow infrared interface (the Asus SIR/CIR cannot do the 4Mbit speed used by some printers), so I cannot imagine this decision to be very bright. As in my floppy suggestion above, you can buy a USB to infrared dongle, if you want 4Mbit/sec IR on the computer. The SIR/CIR is kind of a waste. HTH, Paul |
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