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wdegroot
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
Posts: 488
Location: pennsylvanai
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Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:41 pm |
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I am going thru a bunch of floppies
and with this system all the floppies read the same.
sometimes doing a DIR of C then A works, but usually chkdsk a:/f reads the true disk then I can read the directory.
I have heard that cutting the CHANGELINE wire helps
but why dioes it happen and then stop happening, |
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386er
Joined: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 274
Location: USA
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Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:43 pm |
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i have that problem too, gave up on dir command and used dosshell (dosshell can refresh with the f5 key) |
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ryan

Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Posts: 261
Location: WisConSin
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:38 am |
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I had that problem in the past also.
The only way I could replicate it was when I would dir a floppy disk with a couple bad sectors in the fat of the disk then try to read another floppy after that. (aka I could repeat it endlessly whenever I would read a certain bad floppy)
You might have some semi-dying floppy disks in your pile.
Good Luck |
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