30 Jun
2019
30 Jun
'19
2:32 a.m.
It... seems to be working reliably again now.
I'd still be interested in finding a spare/compatible, even if it's a bare
drive without the card edge connector, but somehow now that i've been
prodding it and doing absolutely nothing different other than booting off
it a few times, it seems to be operating just fine under DOS 5
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 5:15 AM Gary Sparkes <mokuba at gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all, i'm having a fair amount of trouble with
my PS/2's floppy
drive... wanted to back up my BBS and none of the disks i put in would read
or format!
Oddly though, it WILL boot a disk that's inserted on power-on.
I hear it try and hit the disk a few times while in dos repeatedly before
failing with the R/A/F options ... and format tries to read it, then goes
attempts to format it, and can't find sector 0 .....
I'm really confused about those symptoms since it boots the only bootable
disk I had on hand - ironically spinrite 6 (I'm aware of how useful it
is...) - so i'm looking at replacing it ... or figuring out what's wrong
with it that it can boot a disk just fine, but not use one while in DOS ?
.... and by wiggling the floppy a bit I just got it to format a disk while
in the ... drive, and now it's making the noise it did before and stalling
occasionally.
Perhaps the disk just isn't catching fully?
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Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG
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Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG