Sounds like either the cable is bad or the controller for the floppy drive
is bad.

First I would try replacing the cable to the floppy drive. If this does not
help, then I would say the controller for the floppy is bad. I am guessing
that the cable for the floppy plugs into the board (and not to a card in one
of the slots), if this is the case you will need to get a I/O card to
replace the onboard controller. If you do go this route, you will need to go
into bios to see if there is an option to disable the onboard controller for
the floppy. If there is, disable it. The I/O card will probably have
connections for 2 IDE ports and the floppy. You will need to check for
jumpers on the card to disable the IDE controllers on the card, so that you
only use the floppy controller on the card. Install and everything should be
ok.

I had to do this with a system I put together for my sister. had a really
nice board with a bad floppy controller that gave me a lot of grief until I
figured it out. Everything works fine now. If  you need any more help, email
me.

Fran

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul J. Traynor" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: floppy drive problem


> Hi,
>
> A friend of mine is having problems with a floppy drive and as yet I don't
> have full specs of the computer it is on but just to  say that everytime
we
> put in a floppy disk which has a program on it, it corrupts the disk and
> program files.  For example if a disk has 18 files on it going in, it
tells
> you after trying to install the program from the floppy that it has 48
files
> and the disk ends up useless.
> Has anyone ever encountered this.  By the way this is the third disk drive
> tried with the same results.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>

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