Mark, Larry, and everyone else who responded to this, my A drive now works.
I took it out and brought it to a neighbor's house.  His A drive worked
fine.  I put mine in with my cable and it didn't work.  I took out my cable
and used his and it did work.  Talk about bad luck, I had bought a brand new
defective cable the other day.  I took it back to CompUSA and got another
one.  I put the whole shebang back in and it worked perfectly.  How often
could that happen?  Who would ever expect that a brand new cable would be
defective.  So it wasn't anything esoteric, just a defective cable.  Much
thanks to everyone who responded to this.  Never be sure of even the simple
things.  Joel

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