my floppy drive keeps spinning

[echristian]

I have a boot loader that works well with Christopher Giese's Protected Mode examples, but My floppy drive continues to spin if I comment out the following line.How can I stop my floppy from spinning and stay in 32 bit Protected mode?


;jmp REAL_CODE_SEL:do_16    ; switch to 16-bit protected mode on
                           ;your to real mode

[jamethiel]

Turn the motor off yourself by writing 0x00 to port 0x3f2.

--Jamethiel

[echristian]

i tried out 3f2,0x00h but it did not work. Is this what you meant for me to try?
Thanks for the help

[echristian]

thanks i got it now. I am a newbie

mov eax ,0000h
mov dx,03f2h
out dx,ax ;stop floppy motor