On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:45:35AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I went to use my floppy and noticed that the light is perpetually on. [...] > > I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays > on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on > to the hard drive.
In my experience, this means the floppy cable is on incorrectly. Check pin1 lines up with pin1 on the motherboard.. :) > It seems to me most likely that this is a hardware failure. Would > anyone concur? I tried opening up the box and un-plugging-re-plugging > the cable but that didn't seem to help. I am wondering if the floppy > drive has died. It is sitting between two harddrives, so perhaps it > got too hot? Though I didn't think drives did get too hot??? > > Ideas anyone? Please cc any replies directly to me because although > I've recently subscribed, the list doesn't seem to be being sent to me > yet. > > Cheers, > > Mark. > > _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ > ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ > ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ > __________________________________________________________________________ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
