Have you changed your video card recently? Ihave seen one case and heard of
one other that sounds similar to yours. In both cases, there was some kind
of conflict between the video and the floppy. Changed the card and problem
gone.
ed

At 07:35 AM 3/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>recently my floppy drive became unusable.
>i can read from it fine, butt iff i write anything to it the file
>becomes
>scrambled. i thought it was a bad disk but it's not.
>even reformatting is no help.
>i thought it was a bad drive, changed it.
>i've put in a new cable.
>i even disabled the on board floppy controller and installed a floppy
>controller card
>still no good.
>any clues as to what is wrong?
>
>michael galante
>