The slow and freezing, combined with the other problems you are having
sound like a configuration and/or a hardware problem.  As far as your
"> system resources are taxed to the limit? " question, I would expect this
to work on a 486-33 and up.
The Seagate backup drive sounds like it might be a tape drive on the floppy
controller. If so, try disabling it in the BIOS if it is not.
Sorry, that is all that comes to mind.      Rick Glazier
----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
> I have been working on a system that will not read from the floppy drive.
> When I try to access the drive, I get an unfamiliar reading noise followed
> by a "not ready reading drive A" prompt. I swapped the drive with a new one
> and when I try to access it, I have the system freeze up! I even tried  a
> new ribbon cable with each floppy drive(both old drive and new). System
> seems to be very slow when I double click on icons with the new replacement
> drive. The system has a 6.4GB Hard drive as primary master, CD-ROM is
> secondary master, and the floppy cable serves a Seagate backup drive (middle
> connector) and the floppy drive is connected off the end of the cable. When
> I try to remove drives or controllers through Device Manager, so that
> windows can rebuild at restart, again, things freeze up. Maybe the system
> resources are taxed to the limit? All responses greatly acknowledged!

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