i disconnect the floppy , and it works just like normal, boots from the hard drive, etc,,,

so i pulled the floppy and tested it in my LC II and the floppy drive works just fine in the LC, no funny business,

so the issue must be with the IWM or maybe a cap?

next thing to try is a external floppy but all i have is a 5 1/4 drive from my 1984 apple ][e