"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message
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Have you tried the Floppy cable the other way round on this drive?
Maybe it does not have standard i/o - worth a try.

James,

Is that really safe? I don't know the pinouts on the floppy cables, but
I'm
leery of turning it around. I've never heard of anything like that.
Have
you
done it? Did it make a failed floppy work? Did it make a working
floppy
fail? Did it have no effect?

Do not reverse the smaller power connector. If the data connector is
reversed and is wrong the light on the floppy will stay on. OUtside of
maybe some bent pins it will not cause any harm to the drive or computer.
Some cables did not have a hole for a pin near the middle of the
connector.

I decided not to try reversing the cables. The data cable that came with
the drive
has two floppy connectors and one motherboard connector. The two floppy
connectors are wired differently in that four of the wires in the ribbon
cable are
reversed for the end connector but not for the one in the middle of the
cable.

I did try connecting to the middle connector but the results were the same.
The light on the floppy goes on for a few seconds, but Windows reports
Drive not ready.

I've sent an email to MSI in hopes that they can tell me what's going on
and/or
recommend a drive that they know works. Failing that, I may try either a
NEC
(which is what my old Dell drive was that worked in this machine) or a TEAC,
as recommended by the previous poster.

Thanks to all for the advice.