From: "Nat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 800k vs. 400k floppy drives Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:17:55 -0800
I hooked up the drive itself to the 512k motherboard. The machine exhibited exactly the same behavior as with the SE 800k drives-- the drive went immediately into an "eject" cycle (though there was no disk in the drive) that was so rapid I could not even get a disk into the drive.
Please forgive me if I'm covering old ground, as I haven't followed this thread in detail.
The repeated eject cycle symptom is caused by using the wrong floppy cable, I believe. At least I know it is in some cases. There are floppy cables with a yellow stripe and others with a red stripe and one of the two has one of the conductors cut. If you use one in place of the other (don't remember if that's red for yellow or yellow for red) the extra conductor sends an extraneous signal to the drive and the forever eject happens.
Jeff Walther
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