Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

[Dale]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>>>  The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it.  I'm
>>>> hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light
>>>> on this.
>>>
>>> The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged
>>> in incorrectly. Turning it around might be sufficient to make it work
>>> again.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> It started doing that all on its own without being touched.  I'm pretty
>> sure it was trying to spin too.  I think something went out and was
>> trying to make it spin all the time.  I may have another one out in the
>> shed but I'm not sure.  I may have a old junk rig but I don't know
>> whether they work or not.  I'm also not sure I have any floppies either.
>>
>> I'm just full of issues on this one.  lol
>>
>> Thanks to all for the replies.  I'll give those tools a try.
>
> Forgot to mention a couple things earlier:
>
> 1) Floppies can go bad from dust accumulation. Sometimes they can be
> cleaned by jerking the head via software. That was a normal part of
> the driver in DOS and Windows, IIRC.
> 2) On PC clones, floppies never had auto-insert detection. (Though
> maybe you'd get something like that if you used a superfloppy or
> LS-120 drive to read them)
>
>


I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD.  Tell
him it is time to catch up with new and better things.  CD drives has
autodetect and just plain work better anyway.

At least I know there is a chance.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

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