[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

Hello Chuck Speaking of old floppies, when I was busy converting floppies (I've now been retired for 10 years) I frequently had problems reading some 5.25" disks, but only on specific drives. Those disks came from IBM systems, probably S/3. I cannot be sure that the solution holds, but it was my experience that those "faulty" discs could be read on TEAC FD235GFR drives orignating from Japan. Not the ones from the Philippines ! That puzzled me, until I called MIchael Cotgrove from (then) Intermedia in the UK, who told me that he knew that some IBM systems ran the drives at a lower speed, and that that very well could be the problem. After that explanation, I only used the 142U version of the drive, and the problems went away. Does this sound familiar?