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July 15th 08, 01:52 AM
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Reading floppy disks
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. 
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July 15th 08, 01:56 AM
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Reading floppy disks
On Jul 15, 1:52*am, species8350
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. Ps. Forgot to mention floppy is 3.5" media
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July 15th 08, 02:31 AM
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Reading floppy disks
Defective machine.
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July 15th 08, 03:14 AM
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Reading floppy disks
Previously species8350 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
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July 15th 08, 04:16 AM
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Reading floppy disks
Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously species8350 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? -- --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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July 15th 08, 11:30 AM
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Reading floppy disks
On Jul 15, 4:16*am, Ed Light wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously species8350 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? -- --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel:http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home:http://bringthemhomenow.orghttp://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War:http://ivaw.orghttp://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. Thanks for the responses. best wishes Sp.
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July 15th 08, 01:23 PM
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Reading floppy disks
Previously Ed Light wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously species8350 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
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July 15th 08, 11:05 PM
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Reading floppy disks
On 15 Jul 2008 12:23:49 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger
to keyboard and composed: Previously Ed Light wrote: Arno Wagner wrote: Previously species8350 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 -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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July 17th 08, 02:14 AM
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Reading floppy disks
Previously Franc Zabkar wrote:
On 15 Jul 2008 12:23:49 GMT, Arno Wagner put finger to keyboard and composed: Previously Ed Light wrote: Arno Wagner wrote: Previously species8350 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. All possible. Floppies were a pain. Arno
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