Problem with 5.25 floppy drives

Hello.
I have a problem with functioning of 5.25 floppy drives on my MSI 645 Ultra (MS-6547) mother board. Seems the board does not support such drive, while BIOS claims it does.
When I connect 5.25-inch floppy drive to the motherboard, and define it as 5.25-inch floppy drive in BIOS Setup, the 5.25-inch diskettes inserted into the drive are not recognized by DOS. I tried two floppy drives of different vendors. Both work properly on my other (older) computer with the same diskettes. The diskettes are good - I have several tens of them.
When I failed to solve the problem myself, I tried to get help from the store, where I have purchased the motherboard. Their results were the same as mine.
The most good result that I could achieve - is to connect 5.25-inch floppy drive as usual, but to define it as 3.5-inch floppy drive. In this case I can at least read my diskettes. But it is obvious that I shall not be able to write/format these diskettes because of format geometry and physical surface differences between 5.25-inch diskettes and 3.5-inch diskettes.
I tried BIOS versions v1.6 (provided at the purchasing moment), v1.7, v1.8 and v1.9 (the latest).
Does MSI tests their board/BIOS-s for working with 5.25-inch floppy drives?
Does anyone of forum participants have MSI 645 Ultra (MS-6547) board with working 5.25-inch floppy drive connected to it?
Thank you.

Seems that I mistaken with the forum. I'll redirect my message to other MSI forum.

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