In message <199809261121.EAA02603@shell17.ba.best.com>, Todd Whitesel writes:
>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.

That almost sounds like a confused cable.  You might double check which side
is Pin 1.  :)

-s