Floppy problem

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

Posted this in the GTR forums as well.

I have a Sony 3.5'' 1.44mb internal floppy drive in it.  The light on it stays on full time, and it won't read or write disks.  Windows detects it as the A drive.  Capacity is set correctly in the BIOS.  Nothing unusual in device manager.  I did some searching and the primary thing I found was people with the cable in upside down.  I'm fairly certain I have both ends in correctly and seated properly.  No bent pins.  Pre-formatted disks.  It's a 2 connector cable, 1 end in the mobo, 1 in the drive, aftermarket rounded.  Any ideas?

[Felix*{MEOW}*]

OK sometimes the IDE cable can go eather way 99.99999% of the time the red band goes closest to the power plug side and it should be marked pin 1 on the drive. the red line on the cable on the side of pin 1. the other side should be marked pin 20 or 24 .. The symptom your talking about smooth sounds like a backwords IDE cable. if your drive light stays on even after you flip the cable over you might have a bad floppy or if it doesn't come on it might be bad.
ck your CMOS to make shore your boot floppy seek is enabled as well if you have that setting.
a setting like that is old school C-mos stuff but ya never know

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

I haven't seen that setting yet Fe.  I have boot priority set to the floppy, then dvd-rom, then hdd.  I'll open the case and check the connections again today.  I don't recall seeing markings on the connector itself.  It is a link depot 18'' 2 connector.

[Smooth*{MEOW}*]

Connector was upside down in the back of the drive.  All set now.

[Kitty*{MEOW}*]

lol Told Ya smooth done that a 100 times myself. LOL sorry i left had a phone call that was important.