Yes,  Thanks for trying.  <grin>  Both ends of the cable were marked with the
little arrow AND had the keyways, (I did not mention they were modern round
cables).

The MB has the keyway. The floppy drive was not manufactured correctly
since the cable was not allowed to push on with pin one in the pin one position...
Floppy Pin one was marked correctly with the little arrow and showed up
properly in the engineering drawings...

This is one for the books....

I needed a working floppy to boot a program to see a serial number of an
HD for an RMA fight so I was SURE I could solve the problem by just breaking
out the cut out in the PCB... That worked fine...

YMMV  -- Do not try this unless you are SURE it is the problem and
have ALL the appropriate documentation to prove what you are doing
is correct...

I was kind of really surprised that was necessary...
I still have an un-modified floppy drive to take pictures of if anyone wants
"real" proof...  (It is not even worth writing to the vendor, even if I can remember
who they were...)

                                                    Rick Glazier


From: "Joe Lore"
> Are you sure the mainboard cable end is "keyed" and not in backwards.

>> ===========================
>> I am having a VERY odd problem with two Teac floppy drives I just purchased.
>   (FD-235HF C291-US     P/N 193077c2-91   Indonesia)
>
> The cables are keyed and they CAN'T be hooked up backwards...
> The "problem" is that the light stays on, and they do not work.
> (This would seem to indicate a "pin one" problem...)
>
> I tried three sets of cables, a "known good" one and two new ones.
>
> I got the engineering specifications and drawings off the WEB and it "seems"
> like they forgot to break out the keyway slot on the PCB...
>
> I'm going now to look at all old drives around here, including dead ones, (I
> save everything...)
>
> Has anyone else seen this and had to break that out themselves?

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