Floppy light staying on...

[Scooter]

I know that if you put the cable in upside down that it will happen. I know the cable's not upside down. It has the little projections on it so that you can't. =)

I replaced the floppy and it wasn't the problem.

Any ideas? Oh, I almost forgot.. I'm running a KT7-RAID.



[Edited by Scooter on 11-28-2000 at 09:41 AM]

[Need4Speed]

Weird..that happened to me too. I was running win98se at the time. Installed win2k and it went away...not much help i know, but thought i'd share it anyways

[Scooter]

Sorry, I should have also mentioned this is a fresh install....

[wvjohn]

check your setup to see if floppy seek/floppy boot is enabled - i had the same prob when i set mine up but don't remember how it got fixed - my prob related to the ide controllers being off by default i think i'm ruuning me

[succubiss]

sometimes the notch on the floppy cable is on the wrong side. I remember once i had to use a knife to scrape off that notch and then everything was okay. I think the rule of thumb is pin 1 (the red stripe) on the floppy cable faces the power connector.

good luck

[no_neck_joe]

As well, the end with the twist MUST be attached to the floppy, not the board.

[Scooter]

The damn cable is wrong. I cut the little projection off and put it in upside down, and it works! Weird.

Anyways, thatnks for all the help guys.

[Busby]

Just felt like adding that on a floppy drive pin 1 faces AWAY from the power connector or else the floppy light will stay on.

[pHaestus]

Hey does that damage the floppy? I have done this before when building a new system and then had the boot floppy not work. Could just be coincidence, but I think it happened a couple of times. Maybe I just forgot to throw away the bad floppy the first time though....

[mcbiff]

Putting a floppy disk in a drive with a constant light *will* kill the floppy.