On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:47, Patrick Bachmann wrote: > Hi Holger, > > Thanks for your reply. > > On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by > > a floppy media issue -> try another floppy. > Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two > year guarantee on them, but it still didn't work. > > > Always write floppies with "dd" and compare them with "cmp" after writing. > That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But the > images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable.
One more thing to try. Go to Staples again and buy a floppy drive cleaning kit (a thing that looks like a floppy disk but with a piece of fiberous material in place of the mylar disk -- it often comes with a bottle of "cleaning solution" which is really just distilled water.) Old floppy drives, especially if infrequently used, get really dusty inside. This interferes with reading. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
