Thanks for the help.  I wanted to post a resolution to this.  I forgot to include that this system booted to DOS 6.22 (remember that?).  I came to the same conclusion that Bob did, that there must be a software problem.  I FDISK'd and formatted the hard drive and installed Win98.  The system now reads and writes to/from the floppy drive.

Thanks again!
Ron

------Original Message------
From: Bob Wright <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: March 10, 2000 4:03:20 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Can Boot from floppy, but not read


At 09:19 AM 03/09/2000 , Ron Jobbe wrote:
>I am trying to fix an odd problem.  I have a system that I could not read from the
>floppy drive after the system boots, but will boot from a floppy and successfully
>operate.  In separate steps, I swapped the ribbon cable, the floppy drive and then
>disabled the onboard floppy controller and installed an old controller in an expansion
>slot (all parts are known to work).  The problem still persists after all of this.  Any
>helpful suggestions?
>
>The system is a generic build with:  Intel AN430TX MB, Intel P5-166 Classic, 32 Mb
>SDRAM, Quantum 3 Gb HD, Toshiba CD-ROM, Cirrus Logic video, etc.


It is a problem I have never encountered.  In that you have verified that
the hardware is not an issue, the floppy drive works as a boot device,
then I would suspect your operating system has been fouled.

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