On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:19:19AM -0700, Jeff Walther wrote:
> 
> If you have a voltmeter, I would hook it up to your 5V supply and see
> if it drops significantly below 5V when the floppy drive is plugged in
> and during the boot process.  Similarly for the 12V supply.
> 
> It could be that there's a short on the floppy drive, or it could just
> be that your supply is already marginal (maybe only delivering 4.9V or
> something) and the floppy drags it under the operating range of the
> logic board.

Will check the supply next time I have a look, but another SE/30 board
works fine in the same case with the same floppy.

-- 
Ryan C. Underwood
runderwo(at)mail.win.org

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