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   Jeff Hochman to Jeff Hochman   
   Re: Arghh...not another problem with flo   
   03 Dec 22 19:20:17   
   
   From: anonjh@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 8:55:14 PM UTC-6, Jeff Hochman wrote:   
   > I upgraded my power supplies in my model 3 (since the originals   
   smoked/caught on fire}. Everything looks good when I reboot EXCEPT now the   
   previously working floppy drives no longer do. I tested the power supply   
   voltages and they look okay. I hooked up    
   several different floppy drives and they all do the same thing....basically   
   nothing. When I boot the crt says "Diskette?" and the floppy drive is   
   connected but the led never lights up or spins...I don't think its a bad   
   floppy drive as it used to more or    
   less work (some errors, needed cleaning} when booting before I took the model   
   3 apart. Any ideas? Please don't tell me it's the floppy controller....much   
   more cost/work to fix that.    
   >    
   > Thanks,    
   > -Jeff   
   I tried something else.  I flipped the ribbon connector around on one of the   
   floppy drives and the led lit up but it still didn't read the boot disk and   
   more or less hungup.   
      
   Totally at a loss.   
      
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