Re: Hardware Problem

[mike <troll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A further suggestion is, if you have a two plug floppy cable try the
other plug.
I read in my travails to make a computer out of this 386, reading that
floppy drive cables were sometimes touchy about which spot fd0 and fd1
were attached to it. Probably not a problem, but ......

-Mike List


Eagle@Mail.Tds.Net wrote:
> 
> I thought the same thing, and a number or other group members have
> expressed similar views.  I have checked the cable and it is plugged in
> as correctly as I can make it.  I looked at the manual for my
> motherboard and it specifically shows where the number 1 pin should be;
> the cable is plugged in accordingly.  I also tried switching the way the
> cable was plugged into the disk drive but that did not help either.
> 
> Bruce Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Is the floppy drive connected correctly?? Make sure the plug is
> > > plugged in correctly to teh motherboard AND to the drive. I have
> > > had this exact thing happen to before because the cable was
> > > plugged in backwards. Just a possibility.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> >
> > I was going to say the same thing, except you beat me to it.
> >
> > It also sounds to me like classic symptoms of the cable being
> > plugged in wrong.  Double check this on your hard drive, as well
> > as the floppy drive, Matt.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> > System Administrator / Network Administrator
> > Armstrong International, Inc.
> > Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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