It could be the controller, but I would first make sure that the cable is seated. Take it out and reseat it - this may help if the contact has become bad. If you can borrow another cable, you could try it, too. Dean Kukral [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loy" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 5:00 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy Drive Problems > I have two floppy drives on my computer. Drive A is a 3.5" > floppy drive. Drive B is 5.25" high density floppy. Neither > one will format a disk. The format routine for both drives > aborts with the error message that sector 0 is bad. I've > tried numerous disks, some new out of the box, in both drives > and they always display the same error. > > Likewise, neither drive will read a formatted disk. Both > drives abort with the Not Ready Drive A or B message. > > Both drives have worked flawlessly in the past. > > Any help on identifying the problem would be appreciated. It > seems like a floppy disk controller problem to me, but it > could be something else; possibly even a software problem with > Win 95. > > The system is a Gateway DX2-66V with a pentium upgrade chip. > The floppy drives in question came with the computer. The > operating system is Win 95. It has 40 megs of ram and two > HDs; a 5.3 gig and a 1.2 gig. > > Thanks... > > Loy Pressley > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org