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Thread ID: 49900 2004-10-04 09:33:00 Floppy not woking in xp phil.b (4456) Press F1
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278168 2004-10-06 10:16:00 I flipped the cable & all's well. I don't know why it worked for ages & then suddenly stopped. It may be a windows update made the cable direction critical.
I don't go with that for a minute.
If the floppy was working fine before the update then reversing the cable will give you the exact problem you found on the forum.
Does it still work in Linux now the cable is back to front.
45South (4769)
278169 2004-10-06 11:23:00 > I looked on another forum I came across in the
> internet. If your floppy light comes on & stays on,
> flip the ide cable. If the light goes out it's the
> power or a faulty ide cable.
> I flipped the cable & all's well. I don't know why it
> worked for ages & then suddenly stopped. It may be a
> windows update made the cable direction critical.

It might be that while tinkering you put the floppy drive cable in the wrong way. I can't for the life of me figure why it works in Linux but not Windows. If it works in Linux then I guess there has to be a command in Linux that says "mount dev whatever reverse"

:-)
Elephant (599)
278170 2004-10-06 11:25:00 > I flipped the cable & all's well. I don't know why
> it worked for ages & then suddenly stopped. It may be
> a windows update made the cable direction critical.
>
> I don't go with that for a minute.
> If the floppy was working fine before the update then
> reversing the cable will give you the exact problem
> you found on the forum.
> Does it still work in Linux now the cable is back to
> front.
Sorry 45South. Had not read your post.

Similar to my thoughts.
Elephant (599)
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