Floppy Drive Problem - Please help!!!

[mikeyd]

I just recently installed a new motherboard and am having problems with my floppy drive. When trying to boot from a win98 startup disk, it goes through the whole process and then at almost the end I get a cannot read from drive a: error. Also when formating a floppy in windows it tells me I have 202752 bad sectors on the disk (have tried several different floppy disks) on every disk I try. I changed the motherboard (floppy controller) and floppy cable. Does this sound like a floppy controller or cable issue? I havn't tried using a different floppy cable yet (I do have another).
Please help.
mikeyd

 

[austinwilli]

sounds like a bad floppy drive to me.

 

[bacillus]

if the light at the front of the floppy drive is on continously then you need to turn the cable 180 degrees at the floppy end because you installed it reversed!

 

[mikeyd]

I have the cable installed correctly. The drive is working but seems like it cannot read a certain part of every disk. When I usually have problems with floppy drives they either work or don't work at all - not this middle of the road stuff.