Re: floppy problem & Award BIOS floppy swap

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 08:57:23 +0200


On 17 Apr 96 at 15:37, Milton W. Thomas Jr. wrote:

> > Now the Asus BIOS is basically an Award BIOS that allows to swap
> > floppy drives. As it seems this feature is not supported by hardware,
> > but is done in software. It works fine for DOS, but for Linux the
> > drive parameters seem swapped, and probably due to that I can't
> > successfully access any drive. Now, is there any possibility for the
> > floppy driver to work without the BIOS parameters, or is there a way
> > to find out if drives are swapped in Award BIOS?
> >
> > To really solve my problem, it seems I need a different cable...
> >
> > Ulrich
> >
> On some ASUS motherboards there are two options to swap floppy drives, if
> you have a swap floppy option in the chipset section of CMOS that one will
> work. I have used it on an ASUS 486 motherboard.

Thank you for this tip! I'll try it...

Ulrich