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echo: os2
to: ROY J. TELLASON
from: MIKE RUSKAI
date: 1998-04-28 21:05:00
subject: two floppy drives

Some senseless babbling from Roy J. Tellason to Coridon Henshaw
on 26 Apr 98  14:04:38 about two floppy drives...
 RJT> Coridon Henshaw wrote in a message to Charles Gaefke:
 
 CH> On Friday April 24 1998 at 02:00, Charles Gaefke wrote to All: 
 
 CG> Only problem is I can't access it under OS/2.  If I have it connected as
 CG> B: with my 3.5" as A:, when I try to access it, the light for BOTH 
rives
 CG> comes on.
 
 CH> Does this happen on boot or just when you access the drive?
 
 CH> This is generally a symtom of having the floppy cable
 CH> connected backwards somewhere.
 RJT> No,  connecting a floppy cable backwards just makes the light for that
 RJT> particular drive come on and stay on all the time as long as the
 RJT> system is powered up...
If you have the cable connected backwards at the controller, both lights go 
on.
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
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