On 1/9/23 21:16, nico de jong via cctalk wrote: > Hello Chuck > > Speaking of old floppies, when I was busy converting floppies (I've > now been retired for 10 years) I frequently had problems reading some > 5.25" disks, but only on specific drives. Those disks came from IBM > systems, probably S/3. > > I cannot be sure that the solution holds, but it was my experience > that those "faulty" discs could be read on TEAC FD235GFR drives > orignating from Japan. Not the ones from the Philippines ! That > puzzled me, until I called MIchael Cotgrove from (then) Intermedia in > the UK, who told me that he knew that some IBM systems ran the drives > at a lower speed, and that that very well could be the problem. After > that explanation, I only used the 142U version of the drive, and the > problems went away. > > Does this sound familiar? HI Nico,
It sounds puzzling to me--the FD235 is a 3.5" drive, so I'm not sure what you were using to read the problem disks with. --Chuck
