I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
(running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
computer it read without a problem.
On Jul 15, 1:52*am, species8350 <not_here.5.species8...@xoxy.net>
wrote:
> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
> computer it read without a problem.
>
> Can anyone explain this.
>
> Thanks.
Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xoxy.net> wrote:
> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
> computer it read without a problem.
> Can anyone explain this.
> Thanks.
Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
Arno Wagner wrote:
> Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xoxy.net> wrote:
>> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
>> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
>> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
>> computer it read without a problem.
>
>> Can anyone explain this.
>
>> Thanks.
>
> Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
> optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
>
> Arno
On Jul 15, 4:16*am, Ed Light <nob...@nobody.there> wrote:
> Arno Wagner wrote:
> > Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8...@xoxy.net> wrote:
> >> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
> >> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
> >> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
> >> computer it read without a problem.
>
> >> Can anyone explain this.
>
> >> Thanks.
>
> > Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
> > optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
>
> > Arno
>
> You mean magnetic head, maybe?
>
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Previously Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> wrote:
> Arno Wagner wrote:
>> Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xoxy.net> wrote:
>>> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
>>> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
>>> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
>>> computer it read without a problem.
>>
>>> Can anyone explain this.
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
>> optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
>>
>> Arno
> You mean magnetic head, maybe?
No, I mean optical sensor. The other thing that can produce
this behaviour is a floppu cable plugget in at 180 degrees
of its right orientation.
On 15 Jul 2008 12:23:49 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> put finger
to keyboard and composed:
>Previously Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> wrote:
>> Arno Wagner wrote:
>>> Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xoxy.net> wrote:
>>>> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
>>>> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
>>>> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
>>>> computer it read without a problem.
>>>
>>>> Can anyone explain this.
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
>>> optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
>>>
>>> Arno
>
>> You mean magnetic head, maybe?
>
>No, I mean optical sensor. The other thing that can produce
>this behaviour is a floppu cable plugget in at 180 degrees
>of its right orientation.
>
>Arno
AFAICS, there would be three sensors - track 0, write protect, and
density select. These could be optical sensors or microswitches. A
dirty track 0 sensor would, I expect, produce obvious noises as the
heads battered against the end stops, whereas the other two sensors
would not be involved in reading, only writing.
I would guess that the OP's drive has dirty heads, or maybe an
alignment problem. Otherwise the diskette may be marginal. I sometimes
have problems reading old archived diskettes.
- Franc Zabkar
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Previously Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2008 12:23:49 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> put finger
> to keyboard and composed:
>>Previously Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> wrote:
>>> Arno Wagner wrote:
>>>> Previously species8350 <not_here.5.species8350@xoxy.net> wrote:
>>>>> I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines
>>>>> (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and
>>>>> the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another
>>>>> computer it read without a problem.
>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone explain this.
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Defective or dirty floppy drive. It happens, e.g. when an
>>>> optical sensor gets coverd in dust.
>>>>
>>>> Arno
>>
>>> You mean magnetic head, maybe?
>>
>>No, I mean optical sensor. The other thing that can produce
>>this behaviour is a floppu cable plugget in at 180 degrees
>>of its right orientation.
>>
>>Arno
> AFAICS, there would be three sensors - track 0, write protect, and
> density select. These could be optical sensors or microswitches. A
> dirty track 0 sensor would, I expect, produce obvious noises as the
> heads battered against the end stops, whereas the other two sensors
> would not be involved in reading, only writing.
> I would guess that the OP's drive has dirty heads, or maybe an
> alignment problem. Otherwise the diskette may be marginal. I sometimes
> have problems reading old archived diskettes.
Reading floppy disks 
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