From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rra2M-0002yr-EI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:03:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AB89E0848; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A724E07DF for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghrr17 with SMTP id r17so1722586ghr.40 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:02:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4n7360LNlsUoDmYPAD8DsE2KbgcMu6amldJEtSbWWyA=; b=iZXDWV7//JY4uP0W2o1j+pdbVD0HHypORxoKnV6hvIk1pdo+7Whc8t4yNkFvdMEfqn W1EOG2YxqBkvjkYYHcUgR0rBqqomQOuEChWlWQ+tAsQgRRM2dHOdi8SoAXa/G43x7lOD J6uvCUHEN733C8uCHzzOPA4WbDq2GSrL2j3pQ= Received: by 10.236.141.37 with SMTP id f25mr22611829yhj.3.1327863727375; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q5sm26689418yhm.7.2012.01.29.11.02.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:02:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:02:05 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120120 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 840c790f-1f2a-49a3-8292-5fa34f6de08c X-Archives-Hash: 753a62919f806386bfe574d305fb70b7 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"