>>>>> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:23:14 -0400 >>>>> "JE" == Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JE> JE> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:47:56PM -0700, Joshua Sanders wrote: >> >> This may seem obvious, but have you checked the cable on the back of the >> Floppy? Is pin 1 aligned correctly? JE> JE> I think you are correct on this - the cable is twisted 180 degrees, JE> either at the mobo or at the floppy drive. JE> JE> The giveaway was that the activity light stays on constantly, which is JE> always caused by this particular type of mis-cabling.
Another guess is absence of floppy drive support in kernel (not compiled in, or compiled as module and not loaded). -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia