Ed, if you saw my second post on this you'll see that I tried a bunch of
different floppies.  I used brand new ones, floppies with drivers, my Win 98
startup disk, you name it.  The latest suggestion is plugging it into a
different pigtail.  That may be the answer, but I'll have to wait on it
since I have only one plug now that fits the drive.  Thanks, Joel



Did you try a different floppy?

Ed Cohen
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:39:27 -0700 "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> 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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