"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. >
Flipping at the controller can also cause problems if you've got more than one device attached to the cable.
