Damn Floppy .. the light is on .. and the cables are connected the right way.

[The Stigenator]

WTF!!!

Any idea what's going on?

The cables can go only one direction and the twist is on the floppy side. This is an MSI K7T266

 

[John]

Reverse the cable, they can usually go either way.

 

[The Stigenator]

<< Reverse the cable, they can usually go either way. >>



I cant there are notched (on the motherboard end) and on the floppy end.. but I will check that. I tried putting it the otherway didnt seem to go.. but I will double check right now).

 

[AFSOC_Commando]

turn one of the cable ends around. I have found that the floppy light stays lit if the cable is reversed..


flip either end, it doesn't matter

GL

 

[ScrapSilicon]

hehe...oops

 

[The Stigenator]

you cant flip either side.. the cable is notched..
I wish I had a non notched cable... the stuff that lies around work.

I feel someone installed the pins on the floppy wrong way around. Tommorow I got to get a SONY floppy (this floppy is from an online store) and then replace teh front panel and face plate and then return that floppy to Fry's.

Freaking A.. I wish I had a non-notched cable though.. I stripped teh E-Machine to see if it had it, but alas it too has a notched cable.

 

[Colt45]

Why don't you just cut the notch off the cable with a razor blade?

 

[odog]

pin1 is on the power side. just line that up......still no love? next try another cable.

 

[Wolfie]

I had to almost force the cable onto the drive. Almost bending the board for the floppy. I still don't understand why they don't fix this issue. It's been this way for a long time and it's still not fixed.. WACKED

Woflie

 

[PliotronX]

<< pin1 is on the power side. just line that up......still no love? next try another cable. >>


That's usually the rule of thumb, but my Panasonic floppy drive's first pin is on the reverse side, facing away from the power connector. I found this out by eyeballing the PCB under the pins, and it listed pins 1 & 2 on the opposite side to the power. Lucky for me, there was nothing surrounding the pins to obstruct the notch from sliding in. If I were in The_good_guy's situation, I'd take a razorblade or X-acto knife and shave the notch off.

 

[flenn]

Yep, cut the notch out and reverse the cable. This has happened to me at least a couple times.

 

[DHL]

Same here, I bent a few pins on the FDD and reverse the notched cable, and it works for me

DHL

 

[PH0ENIX]

Bear in mind something that a lot of people do overlook,

The FDD cable has to be the correct way at BOTH ends, because of that twist in the cable that tells it which is drive A.

If the cable is incorrect @ both ends, then the drive light will be off, and BIOS wont complain about an FDD error, but you'll find that you'll get a seek error when attempting to use it. Swap the cable @ both ends and it's fixed.

If the light is on, then the cable is wrong at only one end - though which end is anybodies guess.

My PCChips mainboard had the keys on the wrong side of the HDD connectors, so red would go to where the board was clearly marked Pin40.
So although it's more likely to be the floppy, sometimes wierd stuff does happen

 

[The Stigenator]

my old P2-400 has a cable without a notch.. I am going to try her out after dinner.. let you guys know when I am done grubbing.