I don't make a habit of this, but when I've put the floppy cable on
reversed the access light stays on constantly during bootup.
Steve

Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> I usually see that error when I accidentally plug the floppy cable in
> backwards on either the motherboard or the floppy drive.  Make sure the
> little red line on the cable is going to pin 1.
> ~M
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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, robert jorgenson wrote:
> 
> > Okay every time i try and boot from the floppy i get this error "floppy
> > disk(s) fail (40)" I have tried everything short of replacing the floppy
> > drive because i know it works i tried it on a different computer. I have
> > replaced the ide cable, i made sure it was plugged in right, i made sure
> > power was plugged in right, i made sure everything was right in the
> > bios, i checked the boot floppy i am using on another computer. The only
> > problem with the floppy though is it wont boot, if i tell bios to ignore
> > all errors it boots fine, but since i dont have anything on my harddrive
> > and my bios cant boot from the cd-rom this doesn't help me at all...i
> > have to be able to boot from the floppy and cant seem to find a way to
> > fix it. If anyone can help me i would appreciate it alot, i know this is
> > kinda off subject from linux so if you want to keep it off the list just
> > e-mail me at snoogans@qwest.net
> >
> >
> > -Thanx
> >
> > The Newbie
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