Floppy Drive Not Working

[DoubleJ$]

The pins on the drive are fine but when i trace the interface cable to the mobo there is a pin missing on the mobo but there is not a hole on the cable so i am thinking that the missing pin is supposed to be missing. I am pretty sure that the cables are all connected correctly. I don't have a working drive so i guess i am stuck for now...

 

[DoubleJ$]

sorry about the double post but i found the floppy on the device manager and it recognized it but there is an error. It says i need to try and change the driver for the drive. How do i do this?

 

[setishock]

get off this 95 kick who the @$#%^$@! still uses 95? LOL

I do and still use 3.11. And dos. It just depends on how much the little system can handle.

 

[per]

Uninstall the driver, reboot and let windows reinstall the driver. Sorry, you are messing with 95. May not work.

 

[DoubleJ$]

i uninstalled all floppy drivers on my computer and then i restarted it with the floppy drive connected and it detected the new hardware and built a new driver for it but yet when i tried to read/write something, it still didn't work. I know this drive works with 95 but i am starting to think that the drive could be defective....

 

[r53s]

I've seen this problem with a floppy drive that has the power cord well attached, but the wires in its interior are damaged, therefore, the power isn't going to the drive.

 

[Kage]

Yeah, I'd honestly assume now mate that that floppy drive is bust too...

 

[DoubleJ$]

thanks

 

[DoubleJ$]

oh by the way i just noticed this. on the back of the floppy drive there is a single pin missing where the interface cable attaches. Since there isn't a pin missing on the cable, i assume this isn't intentionally missing. Could this missing pin be causing this problem all along?

 

[root]

no, thats a marker pin to tell you what way to put the cable in, on some cacles it's still there, on others it's blanked out.