SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message <<

Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:14:39 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: floppy disk drives

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

Sandy Shapiro wrote:

> My floppy disk drive is acting up. Specifically, it reads the first floppy
> disk put in, but subsequent floppy disks are not read. A Dir gives the
> contents of the FIRST floppy.
>
> I checked the cables and reset the CMOS.
>
> Is there anything else to try before junking it and putting in a new one?

Maybe just the more obvious stuff. Get an Alsop cleaning disk + solution, and
make sure the drive's heads are clean. Floppy drive heads can also get out of
alignment. When that happened, there was a time, long ago, when it was possible
and (arguably) worthwhile to have this fixed. Those days are long gone. A floppy
drive has been a marginal piece of gear to most users for quite awhile. It
remains of considerably greater use to us in the OS/2 camp, however. (Boot or
installation floppies; BOOTOS2 emergency disk set. Things that no longer have a
counterpart in WIN-dom.) I try to keep a decent spare on hand, for that day when
the installed FDD inevitably craps out. My last spare cost around $29.

Jordan

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 28 | September | 2001 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.