From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:02:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiBHF7B7RmN6DzibsX3ztGOCAkyoHZEqz8Web8EdEzcDzw@mail.gmail.com>
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>>> The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm
>>>> hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light
>>>> on this.
>>>
>>> The light staying on could also be because the floppy-flatcable is plugged
>>> in incorrectly. Turning it around might be sufficient to make it work
>>> again.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> It started doing that all on its own without being touched. I'm pretty
>> sure it was trying to spin too. I think something went out and was
>> trying to make it spin all the time. I may have another one out in the
>> shed but I'm not sure. I may have a old junk rig but I don't know
>> whether they work or not. I'm also not sure I have any floppies either.
>>
>> I'm just full of issues on this one. lol
>>
>> Thanks to all for the replies. I'll give those tools a try.
>
> Forgot to mention a couple things earlier:
>
> 1) Floppies can go bad from dust accumulation. Sometimes they can be
> cleaned by jerking the head via software. That was a normal part of
> the driver in DOS and Windows, IIRC.
> 2) On PC clones, floppies never had auto-insert detection. (Though
> maybe you'd get something like that if you used a superfloppy or
> LS-120 drive to read them)
>
>
I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD. Tell
him it is time to catch up with new and better things. CD drives has
autodetect and just plain work better anyway.
At least I know there is a chance. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale [this message]
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman
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