On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chrisopher D. Judd wrote: : > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: : > : > [ snip ] : > : > : 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. : > : > Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the drive, and/or at : > the controller. : > : : Note that flipping at the controller does not give the same : result as flipping at the drive if you're using the connector which : has part of the cable twisted.
That's true; I wasn't able to provide specific advice in this case :) : And if that doesn't work try another cable. I've seen cables with : the connectors poorly centered short and cause this behavior after : working fine for several months. ... as well as bad IDE cables, bad SCSI cables, bad serial cables ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
