From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:14:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiBHF7B7RmN6DzibsX3ztGOCAkyoHZEqz8Web8EdEzcDzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com>
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)
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-29 18:15 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CA+czFiBHF7B7RmN6DzibsX3ztGOCAkyoHZEqz8Web8EdEzcDzw@mail.gmail.com \
--to=mikemol@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox