2 Floppys ??

[Jerry625]

I had to uninstall and reinstall Windows 98 O/S on a Gateway 2000 which has a Super Disc LS-120 floppy disc install. When I ran the unstall & reinstall I discovered that my P/C has another floppy drive recognized . I now have a floppy (A) & floppy (B) !!??? Floppy (B) works but floppy (A) won,t recognize any disc. How can I delete this bogus floppy from my P/C??? Thanks in advance.

 

[John Lewis]

Shutdown the computer, move the floppy drive to the other connector on the floppy cable, reboot.

 

[Jerry625]

I have NO idea where these floppy drive cables are?? I do not beleive they are external (i.e. printer, scanner, etc.)I do not recall seeing a floppy cable. Do you mean I have to open the tower case to do this??

 

[diogenes10]

Start
settings
control panel
system
device manager
look at disk drives and floppy disk controllers.

There may be some yellow exclamation point items which will give you a better idea of what's going on.

 

[Jerry625]

diogenes10 : No SUCH exclaimation ???!!!! yellow or otherwise are showing in Devise Manager. Each time I boot in I get a beep/beep and prompt "error"
02B0 Diskette drive A error
Do you know what error 02B0 is???

 

[ceh4702]

By default in the BIOS the system probably thinks there should be an A Drive. It may be on the Boot Order.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[diogenes10]

I was trying to think of other possibilities that would avoid opening the case to check cables.

device manager and bios were all I could think of. (unless there's somekind of a driver issue with that special floppy.)

Google on 02b0 diskette drive errors gives several hits, mostly on dell systems. Some people were able to solve the issue by being sure floppy drives were defined properly in the bios. CEH4702 suggests another possibility in the bios, the boot order.

If the bios settings look ok, then you're probably going to have to take the cover off the computer and reseat the floppy cable to eliminate that possibility.

 

[diogenes10]

http://www.laray.com/build/floppy.html

The link above shows an example of the back of a floppy drive and the cable. There are connectors to the left and to the right of the twist. One of those is currently connected to the drive. mhkwood is suggesting to try connecting the other one to the drive.

Be sure to notice which side of the drive the red stripe is on now and keep it on that side when you reseat or change connectors on the floppy drive.

 

[edfair]

How about verifying the boot order for a: c: cdrom:.
And that swap floppy drives is not turned on in CMOS.
Then boot with a floppy and tell us what prompt you get.
LS120s set up as an additional floppy, but usually become b:, which keeps the a: productive. At least this is how I think I saw it last.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Jerry625,

See if there's any help here:

http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/piat/error.htm

Iechyd da! John
23:05 30/10/2003 GMT

 

[Jerry625]

I will try all of your suggestions tomorrow & let you know the results. Thanks for all the imput. HATS OFF to you all.

 

[RICHINMINN]

I've had the same thing happen with an LS-120. The A: drive is accessible as a 1.44 MB drive accessed via the LS-120, while the other drive (B:, or whatever) is the high-capacity 120-MB version of the drive.

Rich (in Minn.)

 

[diogenes10]

User manual here:

http://www.imation.com/assets/Global_Assets/Products/PDF/SuperDisk_intIDE_UGuide.pdf

Page 14 has comments about bios setup, page 20 has comments about reassigning drive letter.