Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:45:35AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I went to use my floppy and noticed that the light is perpetually on.
[...]
>
> I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays
> on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on
> to the hard drive.
In my experience, this means the floppy cable is on incorrectly. Check pin1
lines up with pin1 on the motherboard..
:)
> It seems to me most likely that this is a hardware failure. Would
> anyone concur? I tried opening up the box and un-plugging-re-plugging
> the cable but that didn't seem to help. I am wondering if the floppy
> drive has died. It is sitting between two harddrives, so perhaps it
> got too hot? Though I didn't think drives did get too hot???
>
> Ideas anyone? Please cc any replies directly to me because although
> I've recently subscribed, the list doesn't seem to be being sent to me
> yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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