gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (geoffrey arthur coulter) (04/03/91)
Hi. This is my first time posting, so I am not really sure of what I'm doing. Here's my problem: my floppies will read, but not write, although they have done so occaisionally in the past. I have a 20mh 386DX clone from the Pac Rim. It was originaly configured with an ST02 (I think - 8-bit Seagate SCSI adapter also controlling floppies) and a 40 meg Seagate drive. My floppies (1.2 & 1.44) worked perfectly. I wanted a faster, larger drive, and decided to upgrade my controller too, so I got an Always IN-2000 SCSI Host Adapter (16- bit, also controls floppies) and a wonderful 150 meg HD. I took it home from the computer exchange and noticed something fishy was going on with my floppies. (Note: problem was intermittent, some some of my tests gave false-positives) I tried each drive sepeartely first, then a replacement Always board, then a different cable, then I bought a seperate floppy controller, and that seemed to do the trick. However, within several months, the problems popped up again, and are no longer intermittent. I have tried everycombination of the above parts I can imagine (including completely removing the Always card) and haven't found a clue as to the nature of my problem. What really puzzles me is that certain combinations will work for a while and then cease to work at all, no matter how I coax them. I'm not sure I will spot any responses to this post in the flood of postings to this newsgroup, so please e-mail responses to gac2@midway.uchicago.edu Thank you.