First, it is not a normal floppy, it is a LS120 drive (can take upto 120M per disk on LS120 disk), the drive use IDE interface, so please check if you have set jumpers correct (master or slave). If the jumper is ok, check if there is any loss connected cable caused by adding the cd-rom. I think the LS120 drive is still good, just some mis-configuration or loss cable.

Jun Qian

Jim Richards wrote:

> I am new to computers, using about 2 years, and know nothing about under the hood stuff other than I added a modem and a CDROM to my first computer that someone gave me. I have a NEC Ready 9883 Pentium 2 333 processor. When I started up my computer a couple of day's ago, & everyday since. I receive this screen with all the nuts and bolt's listed on it with 2 short beeps and this message at the bottom saying,
> Event log message enter setup
> ERROR
> 020B0  Diskette drive A
> ESC to resume
> F2 to setup
> I push resume and everything continues as normal.
> But my floppy doesn't work, it does blink and makes a little noise when you first boot up in the morning but thats it. It used to take the disk from your hand electronically, I guess, but now you have to actually insert it like my old computer and it doesn't eject it either like the
> re is no power to it or something. It is a Mitsubishi LS-120 COSM 05, according to information I retrieved looking under My computer in windows.

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