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