Dan, as it turns out, the original problem was a bad ribbon cable.  I bought
a new one, but I am the only person in the whole world who could pick out a
defective one.  I tested the whole thing on a friend's machine, and it
worked with his cable.  So I took the defective one back, got another,
installed it in my machine, and everything works.  You'd never think to
suspect a bad cable when you just got a new one.  The failure rate on cables
must be nearly 0%, but I found one.  Thanks, Joel



Joel,
If you have a floppy in A on boot it should stop and give you the Non-System
disk or disk error message.  That should tell you right there that its NOT
a windows error since the OS has not begun to initialize at that point.
I would have to think that your problem is the mini connector, or the floppy
drive controller or the bios is having trouble.

Dan

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