I have a Gateway Performance III 500mhz. When I bought the system last November, I told the salewman that I planned to add a 5.25 FD (Gateway didn’t offer them). Now, 10 months later, I’ve gotten around to doing it … well, to finding out that I apparently can’t do it. Gateway’s motherboard comes with a chipset that ONLY support one floppy drive. (This apparently isn’t a BIOS limitation as they first suggested.) I can get either a 3.5″ FD or a 5.25″ FD to work (via recabling and BIOS change) as A:, but not both at the same time. I have since tried one of TEAC’s dual combo floppy drives. I was able to get the A: drive at first, but then both drives failed when I tried to access the B: drive.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I’ve screamed at Gateway enough to give even myself a headache … (since I bought it in Augusta, Georgia and now live in Spanaway, Washington, taking it back to the salesman isn’t an option and that was one of Gateway’s suggestions).
