[WEB4LIB] Re: echnical question

[Michelle Rempel]

Does the light stay on continuously on the floppy drive?  If so, the 
connector is likely on backwards. Did you check the power connections?

Michelle

At 05:02 PM 1/15/02, you wrote:
>Joyce,
>
>Could it be a BIOS error?
>
>Jacque King
>Library Technical Support Specialist
>Fort Collins Public Library
>201 Peterson Street
>Fort Collins, CO  80524
>(970) 221-6716
>king at julip.fcgov.com
>
>
>On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joyce M. Latham wrote:
>
> >
> > Ok, troops, here is one of those technical questions I need help with
> > periodically:
> >
> > I am setting up a bunch of 486's for tear-down/re-build for a library
> > school class.  The only problem is a persistence in loss of the A drive
> > -- four out of the six do not recognize the A drive -- swap out a
> > drives, swap out cables, get a seek error message when booting the
> > machine; tried changing the setup to 720's -- no luck.  These are all
> > the same machine, getting the same error, which leads me to believe it
> > is a set-up issue in some way, other than just all the connectors on the
> > mother board for the a drives has gone bad ...
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Joyce
> >
> > --
> > Joyce M. Latham
> > GSLIS -- University of Illinois
> >
> >    "Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people; there is
> > only     enlightened activity."  Suzuki Roshi
> >