On 26-Sep-98 Todd Whitesel wrote:
> I just rearranged one of my i386 machines a little so I could close it up.
> 
> But now its floppy drive is not happy. The green LED stays on all the time,
> the drive can read disks just fine, but it can't write anything without both
> getting an error and trashing the track it was trying to write to.
> 
> Could this be a typical infant mortality scenario for PC floppies? The drive
> is only a few months old. Or did I manage to fry it somehow.
> 

This sounds suspiciously like a cabling problem.  Sounds like it may have
gotten plugged into the "B" port on the floppy cable.

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