Humm Rick,
You reminded me of my first build some years ago. I also had a floppy where
the light would stay on even though both the keyed ends of the cable were in
correctly. I cut the nub off the cable to the drive, flipped her over and
all was well. Seems to me it was a Sony FD drive and an Abit MB.

Brad Loomis
Quaking in San Miguel, CA

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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...)

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