Joel....is it possible to take the floppy drive and move it to another
computer and see if it works there?  Also, you said that you tried to
boot off the disk and it just bypassed it...what are your settings in
the bios for booting?  Make it boot from the floppy, I'd like to hear
what happens.

Dan Duffy


-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Joel M. Blackman
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:39 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] A drive doesn't work


For unknown reasons I cannot access my A drive.  I get the message that "A
drive is not ready".  I have a disk in it, but it will not display.  It
isn't the drive because I bought a new one and had the same problem.  I
bought a new cable and that didn't help.  It shows up as working in device
manager in Windows and in safe mode.  The BIOS displays it during the boot.
I checked to make sure the cable was pin 1 to pin 1.  If it were the cable
or the connection the BIOS would show "drive failure".  The only thing I can
think of now is that the mobo connector died, but I would think that would
give me a message "drive failure" during the boot.  If it isn't the drive or
the cable or the connection, or the mobo, what is left to check?  Any ideas
will be investigated.  Thanks, Joel

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