PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

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Chapter 24: Troubleshooting PC Hardware^629


disk controller. However, devices that work on the floppy drive interface and
with the floppy controller, such as a tape drive adapter, may also try to use
these resources.
 Motherboard issues If the floppy disk controller is built into the mother-
board or its chipset, the problem could be a motherboard issue. In this case,
there’s not much you can do except to disable the floppy disk controller in the
CMOS and install an FDC.

Figure 24-1. A floppy disk drive data cable has a twist in the cable

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