I'm seeing that right now.  I rebuilt my main system here, keeping the old
floppy drive but not much else.  One thing I did replace, though was the
floppy cable, replacing a ribbon with one of the new round cables.
  Since the motherboard is keyed, the drive is keyed, and the cable is
keyed, and the drive worked with a previous motherboard and cable, I'm
suspicious that the new round cable might not be wired/keyed correctly.
  Could this be your situation?

Dave Gillett


On 1 Oct 2004 at 9:37, Richard Glazier wrote:

> I am having a VERY odd problem with two Teac floppy drives
> I just purchased.
>   (FD-235HF C291-US     P/N 193077c2-91   Indonesia)
>
> The cables are keyed and they CAN'T be hooked up backwards...
> The "problem" is that the light stays on, and they do not work.
> (This would seem to indicate a "pin one" problem...)
>
> I tried three sets of cables, a "known good" one and two new ones.
>
> I got the engineering specifications and drawings off the WEB
> and it "seems" like they forgot to break out the keyway slot
> on the PCB...
>
> I'm going now to look at all old drives around here, including dead
> ones, (I save everything...)
>
> Has anyone else seen this and had to break that out themselves?
>
>                                                 Rick Glazier
>
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