At 18:47 6/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Despite your checking the cable orientation, 8 out ot 10 times,
>the problem you described is due to the cable being reversed.
>Are you SURE that the cable is plugged in correctly?  at both ends?

Have you tried using a different power cable connector.

>If everything is as it should be, then you have a hardware problem.
>Either the floppy disk is bad (unlikely since you replaced it) or the
>connector on the MoBo, or the port on the peripheral chip on the
>MoBo.  IN either of the last two cases, you will need a new MoBo.
>(unless you are reeeeally good with a soldering pen.)
>
> > I first posted this yesterday, but have received no responses.  Although my
> > BIOS reads the presence of the A drive, and it shows up in device manager
> > as working properly together with the floppy disk controller, I cannot
> access
> > it.  Since my first posting I replaced the floppy disk controller driver
> > files (hsflop.pdr and ios.vxd) with fresh copies from the Win 98 CD.  As I
> > stated in my earlier posting, I bought a new floppy drive and cable which
> > did not fix the problem.  I keep getting the message that "Drive A is not
> > ready, Cancel/Retry".  I checked device manager in safe mode and there not
> > multiples of the drive or the floppy disk controller.  There are no yellow
> > exclamation points in device manager.  During POST in the boot I don't get
> > "Drive failure" error which I would get if the drive didn't work or the
> > cable was not pin 1 to pin 1.  The drive activity LED does not stay on all
> > the time, but does light up when I try to access the drive.  When I try to
> > access it the sound is like that of a car with a weak battery turning over.
> > If the original drive were dead, the new one would have run, but it also
> > sounded like a car with a weak battery turning over.  So if a new drive and
> > a new cable don't solve this problem, and fresh floppy disk controller
> > driver files don't do it, where else or what else is there?  I have used
> > brand new formatted floppies, so it isn't just one screwed up floppy.  It
> > will not work no matter how many different floppies I try.  It worked and
> > then it didn't.  System file checker does not show any corrupt or deleted
> > system files, but I replaced the floppy disk controller drivers anyway. If
> > I try to look at drive A in "my computer" it causes "my computer" to freeze
> > up so I have to close it using ctrl/alt/del. Looking at the other drives in
> > "my computer" does not cause this problem.  I did a google search, but did
> > not find anything particularly useful.  Most people don't pay much
> attention
> > to the A drive because it is so elementary and always there.  Thanks for
> > your help.  Joel


Mark C. Barron

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