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Originally Posted by michaelk
What do you mean by nothing?
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My bad. Just frustrated.
When I type in the mount command and hit enter, the LED on the floppy drive lights up and stays lit for 15-20 seconds. There are no errors reported in the console - it just goes back to a command prompt. This happened on both Ubuntu and Debian, with any floppy disk I tried.
When I try to read floppies on my Windows XP box, it says, "Please insert a disk into drive A:". The LED on the floppy remains lit. So I pull the floppy out, put a different one in, and I get no change - the LED stays lit, and the messagebox remains. I cycled through 6 or 8 different floppies and there was no change.
I also tried booting off some old bootable floppies I had (using the BIOS boot menu), but it cycled over to the hard drive each time.
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I would assume there were some error messages being displayed of some sort on at least one of the boxes.
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Not in the console.
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Have you verified they are still enabled in the BIOS?
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I haven't for the only fact that it tries to access the floppy only when I ask it to.
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Have you made any changes to the hardware which required disconnecting the floppy cable. Some drives / motherboards allow the cable to be installed upside down for lack of a better description. The drive would appear to be broken.
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I've had my boxes open a dozen times since the last time I used a floppy. I haven't checked for two reasons: 1) I'm lazy and 2) because a backwards floppy cable forces the drive's LED to stay on permanently. And that's not the case here.
So I suppose I could double-check everything.