yes

That is great news.

Message Edited by ldone on 04-10-2004 09:07 PM

Really?  Because I cant get it to work.

I plugged the usb floppy into one of the 2 ports, rebooted, clicked f12, chose floppy disk and it booted from the floppy.

 

I think my bios version is A04

 

worked for me, hope it does for you too

Okay... I must be missing something simple...

I have a Sony USB Floppy and don't have the option to boot off the floppy using the F12 boot menu. I turned on USB Emulation in the BIOS to no avail. Any ideas?

In the bios, usb storage device is the first thing in the boot order, then f12 and floppy diskette.

The screen goes black and the floppy boots.

 

Teac model fd-05pub drive and it is powered by the 8600 through the usb plug.

 

hope this helps

apparently, when I changed the USB Emulation and saved the changes... it didn't save the changes.... sheesh.

I have a similar problem...

I have enabled the USB and when using F12 on bootup it lists the floppy drive as a boot device.

However it refuses to boot from it and if I diable all devices apart from the floppy it reports there are no boot devices.

I have used the diagnostic boot option to investigate further and the USB tree has a clean bill of health but the "cannot read or write to my diskette" tree reports and error 1100:022A.

Once the OS loads the floppy works fine but it is obviously not being detected correctly during the boot sequence.

Can you or perhaps Dell help with this ?