On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:34:35 +0100, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

James,

I am not seeing the A: drive in My Computer.

I am not sure where else it should show up.

Have you already checked for the B: drive ?

The only thing I can think is that maybe that cable is defective???

Nope. That cable is designed to support *two* floppy drives, with one
before the twist, and the other after (as regarded from the connector thats
connected to the motherboard).

In short: Move your drive from before the twist to after (or vise verse),
and you most likely will see your A: drive appear. :-)

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
Googeling for "floppy cable with twist", or even "drive cable with twist"
shows an explanation as the first hit ...


It's a SINGLE cable. Only one drive connector, and that one has the
twist. Yea, I did try B:.

I planned to pull the (known to work) cable out of my Win98 puter, but I
was downloading something at the time, and I try not to plug/unplug
stuff from the MOBO while the machine is running. Unplugging just that
cable probably woukd not hurt anything, but another cable could get
unplugged in the process, with stuff being crammed together.

I might go to the garage and see what's inside some of the real old
computers that I have. I would assume they all have floppy drive cables.