Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

"Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> >  : 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.
> >
> > Sounds like the cable is reversed.  Flip it over at the drive, and/or at
> > the controller.
> >
> 
>     Note that flipping at the controller does not give the same
> result as flipping at the drive if you're using the connector which
> has part of the cable twisted.
> 

Flipping at the controller can also cause problems if you've got more
than one device attached to the cable.