Are you saying the light is on all the time?  Then yes, the ribbon cable
("strap") is reversed.  There was a run of Mitsumi floppy drives where the
"key" cutout for the ribbon connector was done on *both* sides....

David Gillett


On 7 Dec 2005 at 12:41, Ron Kaplan wrote:

> My floppy disk drive (A) and floppy disk controller,when looking under
> device manager,are indicated as working properly. I'm running XP
> Pro/SP2.Under "Standard floppy disk controller properties,it says the
> floppy controller location is on “SIS PCI to ISA bridge”. Driver date
> is 7/1/2001, version 5.1.2600.2180. When I clicked on "Update
> Driver",the result was that there was no driver to update to,
> i.e.,apparently the driver is OK. Under Disk Drives on -Device
> Manager- it only lists IOMEGA ZIP100(B:) & ST3160023A (C:,my hard
> drive).  Shouldn’t floppy A: be listed also? Two more things: I
> checked the connections, and they are OK--including that the strap
> connection is not backwards; and, the light  on the floppy is ALWAYS
> on, which obviously is not right. Any idea on how I can troubleshoot
> this? The "Troubleshoot..." button under the floppy drive and the
> controller did not help. Thanks very much.

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