Re: OT: floppy drives suck (was Re: OT: power supplies suck)

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 13:46, Kara Pritchard wrote:
> On 23 May 2003, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 15:35, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > > Well, you know, after that rant, it turned out it wasn't the old power
> > > supply at all.  There must be a short in the floppy drive.  (Figure
> > > that one out...)  Both power supplies failed to power up the system or
> > > light up the tester as long as the floppy was connected...  With
> > > *everything* else in the box connected, either one worked fine.
> > 
> > Your tester must be quite different from mine. Mine plugs into the
> > 20-pin ATX connector on the cable coming from the PS. The floppy may as
> > well be in Cleveland.
> 
> No, it's not different.  If you plug the 20pin into the tester, and the 
> other connectors are plugged in (hard drive, floppy, etc) light-ee no 
> work-ee.  You unplug the floppy power connector and viola, green light.

How can that be??  The tester and the power supply are plugged into each
other. Are you saying you can then connect/disconnect the floppy and
have the PS tester's light go off/on?

--Doc


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