On 04/09/2004 04:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
Matt Morgan wrote:
Thanks to Rick and James!
I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to plug the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is, hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).
It saw the floppy _controller_, not the drive.
But the controller might have been controlling and kind of floppy drive, and it was telling me I had a 3.5" 1.44Mb HD floppy, so it was interpolating somewhat.
James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 99% of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had tried to plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I decided to try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have very, very few. Thanks.
I think James meant a floppy disk, not the drive.
Makes sense, thanks.
