Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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???
Definitely sounds like hardware. The only time I've seen that behaviour
is when the floppy cable was plugged in backwards. Damn I hate cables
that can be plugged in backwards! Verify that everything is plugged in
properly.
If that doesn't help, then something has failed. It could either be the
drive or the controller on the motherboard. Hopefully you've got access
to another drive for testing.
It's not likely to have overheated because of the hard drives. I suppose
it's possible if they're high speed SCSI disks, which can get quite warm,
but I've never seen an IDE disk get very hot. And even if they did,
they'd probably be at as much risk of failure as the floppy drive. So I
don't think that's the problem at all.
HTH,
noah
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