Culbrelai
Experienced Member
Hello, just discovered this forum looks like it'll be useful for my newfound hobby, already have been a modern computer guy for some time, hehe.
In any case, I recently acquired a Mitsubishi MF504C 1.2 MB 5 1/4th floppy drive off ebay (tested and working so I jumped at it, every other one seemed to be sold as is)
Got it to put in my Windows 98 machine, a Micron Millenia MXE, mobo is a H55Hi-Plus.
To make a long story short the drive works but incorrectly shows up in Windows 98. When I set it (rightfully) as a 5 and 1/4th 1.2mb drive in the BIOS it has an error. Oddly enough I put it into 1.44mb 3.5 mode and it works great, even shows the floppies having 1.15 MB in them. Successfully reads and writes to the floppies as well. So clearly something is wrong with the jumpers as I've tried everything else. The floppy cable is brand new and is verified to be working (tested with my 3.5 floppy drive) and its the type with a twist.
My question is what are the correct jumper settings for the standard setup where A: is the 3.5 floppy and B: is the 5.25, and where to put each of them on the cable, before or after the twist? I've found a small manual for my exact drive http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/man...Flexible Disk Drives - Installation Guide.pdf but it's quite over my head, I'm used to SATA where it's like "Plug in whatever the hell you want and it'll work!" Hopefully it will help you help me? Thanks in advance.
In any case, I recently acquired a Mitsubishi MF504C 1.2 MB 5 1/4th floppy drive off ebay (tested and working so I jumped at it, every other one seemed to be sold as is)
Got it to put in my Windows 98 machine, a Micron Millenia MXE, mobo is a H55Hi-Plus.
To make a long story short the drive works but incorrectly shows up in Windows 98. When I set it (rightfully) as a 5 and 1/4th 1.2mb drive in the BIOS it has an error. Oddly enough I put it into 1.44mb 3.5 mode and it works great, even shows the floppies having 1.15 MB in them. Successfully reads and writes to the floppies as well. So clearly something is wrong with the jumpers as I've tried everything else. The floppy cable is brand new and is verified to be working (tested with my 3.5 floppy drive) and its the type with a twist.
My question is what are the correct jumper settings for the standard setup where A: is the 3.5 floppy and B: is the 5.25, and where to put each of them on the cable, before or after the twist? I've found a small manual for my exact drive http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/man...Flexible Disk Drives - Installation Guide.pdf but it's quite over my head, I'm used to SATA where it's like "Plug in whatever the hell you want and it'll work!" Hopefully it will help you help me? Thanks in advance.
