Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Ares
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kent West wrote: > "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, s

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Kent West
"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

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
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

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
> 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 d

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
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 th

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:01:42PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > Thanks for the replies! > > > That usually means the drives ribbon cable is backwards. make sure > > the red side of the ribbon is aligned with pin one on both ends. > > I switched the cable round and now it works! Thanks! > > My

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for the replies! > That usually means the drives ribbon cable is backwards. make sure > the red side of the ribbon is aligned with pin one on both ends. I switched the cable round and now it works! Thanks! My box is so cramped, with the floppy stuck between two hard drives, that you can

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Mike Werner
That sounds like the classic case of the cable being installed backwards on one end. Remember - the red stripe on the cable goes to pin 1 on both the drive and the controller. Try unplugging just one end of the cable, turning it around, and plugging it back in. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD |

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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. > > It seems to me most likely that this is a hardwa

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
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

Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I went to use my floppy and noticed that the light is perpetually on. Trying to use mdir gives: # mdir a: Can't open /dev/fd0: Device not configured Cannot initialize 'A:' Alternatively, trying to use mount on a ext2 floppy gives: # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy mount: /dev/fd0 is not a va