Setting up a B: Drive (Second floppy drive)

Max_Damage · 04-09-2006 12:34AM #1

I've got a 5.25" floppy drive (old school!

) and I want to set it up as my B: drive. I've already got a 3.5" drive as the A: drive. I've wired them up correctly and set all the jumper settings on the drives so that the 3.5" is a A:, and the 5.25" is the B:. However, I can't seem to find any settings in the BIOS setup on been able to set up a second floppy drive. Any help around this problem is appreciated.

BTW, my motherboard is a ASUS P5GV-MX and I'm running on Windows XP Home Edition.

Lump · 04-09-2006 09:56AM

I think windows keeps "B" as a virtual drive letter, so you might not be able to use it.....

John

generalmiaow · 04-09-2006 11:15AM

You can use a second floppy drive with windows alright. I have a 5.25" floppy as my B: drive on XP pro SP2. It's also an ASUS motherboard (a8n-e), but it does have an option in the bios to select a second floppy. Hmm... you should mess around with where the drive is on the cable a bit, sometimes things can be very unpredictable with two floppies.

SparrowHawk · 05-09-2006 04:17AM

Hi,

Just curious as to why you want two floppies (indeed why you want one?)

SH

Ruu_Old · 05-09-2006 04:28AM

Make sure the cable is the right way around. The twist next to the cable indicates that connector is for the first floppy drive.

Stark · 05-09-2006 08:57AM

SparrowHawk wrote:

Hi,

Just curious as to why you want two floppies (indeed why you want one?)

SH

Obviously he has old 5.25" floppies that he wants to read

Max_Damage · 05-09-2006 10:03AM

Stark wrote:

Obviously he has old 5.25" floppies that he wants to read

Correct!

All the wires are the correct way round. I more I look at it, I don't think it's possible with my motherboard since the option for a B: isn't there in the BIOS. Alternativly, I could use a USB floppy drive and set the 5.25" drive as the A:.

astrofool · 05-09-2006 10:49AM

Connect it as A:, read the old floppies. Throw floppies and drives in the bin (or sell them to a person who likes to be retro).

I wonder how read-able those old floppies are now anyway

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 05-09-2006 11:15AM

Is there any way to connect a Commodore 64 tape deck to my PC and have each tape load under B:\ ?
That would be oooresome.

astrofool · 05-09-2006 12:06PM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Is there any way to connect a Commodore 64 tape deck to my PC and have each tape load under B:\ ?
That would be oooresome.

You could connect it to line in, and have a program decode it for you i'm sure

SouperComputer · 05-09-2006 12:25PM

I wonder how read-able those old floppies are now anyway

Depends on the density\format really. 3.5" HD's pretty much suck, whereas DD's last a long time, as im sure many ST\Amiga users will profess.

I have a couple of DD 5.25's here that are older than me that still work. Hardcore.

Feckin Sony had to go messing with the system with HD disks

You could connect it to line in, and have a program decode it for you i'm sure

I think they did this with a spectrum emulator, not sure about the C64 tho.

Setting up a B: Drive (Second floppy drive)

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