I removed the virus checker and all the drives from Devs but sadly made no difference. The machine tries to activate the floppy from the getgo on boot and clicks like when its trying to access a floppy but failing. Then we get to the SCSI boot text which loads on the screen and it halts and the floppy does the same thing again. Then when the Workbench screen pops and there is an icon that says DF0:unreadable and greyed out. The PC0 is no longer there or that would also pop up. There is no virus checker and no rogue drivers being activated. The DF0 is not priority from the boot screen and even if I disable DF0 from boot the same thing happens.
The floppy is not accessible unless I actually place a floppy in the drive on boot at the point the SCSI Squirrel is loaded in.
My conclusion... The drive is busted.
Surely you have a spare floppy drive to try? Or one from another m/c?
There's the 'disk present' switch and 'write enable/disable' switch, also the 'HD' switch if it's a modified hd drive. I'm assuming you've cleaned those with wd-40? Apply oil and work the switches to clean the contacts.
