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Re: Floppy disk drive light always on...HELP!!

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From: Kevin Jacobsen
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00
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This is sort of an easy one, you have connecected the ribbon cable the wrong
way at one end of the cable, at either the drive itself or on the
motherboard, remember the red line on the cable matches up with PIN 1 on the
thing you plug into...... Hope I helped!


Kevin
Kjacob9663@acd-pc.com
Http://www2.acd-pc.com

Javi wrote:

> Have anybody come across this problem?  I am trying to load an OS in a
> new HD and after attaching the HD,CDRom drive, and Floppy disk, when I
> turn the PC on, the Floppy disk drive green light stays light up all the
> time.
>
> In the startup process, ths system recognizes the floppy, but when I put
> a disk on it, even though I can feel the drive working, it just asks for
> a booting disk (which is the one I am putting on) I changed the jumper
> settings both in the HD and Floppy drive but unless I missed some other
> jumper combinations,it did not work.
>
> Please, can anybody help me on this?
>
> Thanks a lot.

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From: Kevin Jacobsen <Kjacob9663@acd-pc.com>
Subject: Re: Floppy disk drive light always on...HELP!!
Date: 1998/11/14
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