On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@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
