Felix Miata  said:

>> When you can't get a floppy to work, what else can you do besides reseat
>> cables and/or swap hardware?
 
>Now and then I buy 2-3 new black face floppy drives for about $9
>apiece. When I find a beige floppy that won't cooperate and cleaning
>doesn't help, I throw it away and put in a black one. Nearly half my
>machines now have black floppy drives.

There seems to be a BIOS issue here.

I removed the floppies, but before I trashed them I checked them one
more time, laying on the case frame and using the single floppy (end)
connector on the cable.  This one works.  That one works too!

I put one inside and hooked it up.  It worked.

I put the other one inside, set the BIOS to two floppies.  Neither
worked.  Disconnected the second one.  The first one worked.  Switched
connections from first to second.  Nothing.

I turned off the second floppy in the BIOS.  Now #2 works (still on the
end connector).

For fun I turned the second floppy back on in the BIOS.  Now #2 works -
same drive, same connection, but I had turned the second floppy off and
back on in the BIOS.  This makes no sense to me.  Maybe the old mobo was
pulling the same tricks and I wasted my money on a new one?  Bah. 
Humbug!

Jim L, via eCS 1.24 version of OS/2
-- 
Politicians: Their lips move too much.


 
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