5 May
2005
5 May
'05
2:46 a.m.
John Hogerhuis wrote:
On 5/4/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>
wrote:
I have to say, I've not had any problems with external floppies on my
IBM lappy at work - and one of the external drives is ex-field engineer
"boot kit" and thus has been rattled about in the back of a Vectra
(Vauxhall, not HP) with keyboards, toolboxes and ATM parts...
Gordon.
I use USB floppy drives, and one refurb HP desktop
that runs WinXP
Pro. No idea what drive is in it, but it always works. Can't
recall a media problem on it.
Allison made the point that fans sucking dirt into the drive probably
causes problems. I've found the same thing.
Using an external floppy drive, USB or otherwise, is one way to take
the fan out of the equation.
-- John.