On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:27 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from Ken Schneider
on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 06:55:22 -0400 Hope to be able to get into more diagnosis on my e-Machine video card issues over the weekend, but I did want to provide update on this other problem with the same machine.
Good. Keep at it. By the way, I will be leaving the list for about a month while I go visit relatives so don't expect personal responses during that time.
Yes, just looked. The ribbon cable is on correctly at both the floppy and MB. Both plugs are keyed and will only go 1 way.
So I swapped the ribbon cable just to see if that would make a difference. It did not. Still no floppy.
Now, by "...changing the cable around (180 degrees)..." did you actually mean reversing the connectors so that the one on the MB goes on the floppy and visa-versa? Could that make a difference???
Actually I meant on the same end. Since you say they are keyed it would not be possible to put on backwards.
I also just realized that when I power-up the pooter the floppy doesn't make the noise it used to make on power-up (sort of a cross between a roar and a grinding noise). I think that was the floppy drive doing a quick spin up??
The green light does come on as usual, but the floppy drive itself does not seem to be responding.
Gil
This sounds like the drive has bit the dust and needs to be replaced. It does happen. I went through 3 drives in 3 years when I was selling shareware awhile ago. They just wore out. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge