Re: XP FDD Problems Ever Fixed?

On Mar 24, 4:31 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris wrote:
SNIP

I don't know if I buy into 3.5" floppy technology being completely
unreliable. I still have DOS floppies that I can read on my NT or 98
machines. They must be 10-15 years old (yeah, I know, why do I keep
them? Maybe to give to a museum someday?). I could be easily talked
into believing that the disks you buy today at the quicky-mart have
thinner magnetic coatings and weaker springs and poorer alignment on
the bulk formatting machines, and, ....

As for using the same hardware, my XP box just runs XP (the NT box
runs NT, 98 and Red Hat and there's another 98 machine in the house).
I have transplanted a working FDD and cable from another box to the XP
box, even got it to read a couple of diskettes, then it went back to
the same symptoms. When the donor FDD and cable went back to their
original box, they miraculously worked again.

I have a working bootable CD, so I can probably get the machine
working well enough to fix it if (when) it croaks, I just haven't
played with making bootable CDs much so my confidence level isn't as
high as with the rescue floppies that I've used in the past.

One thing still bugs me, though, and that's why my USB FDD doesn't
work on the XP machine. Other USB devices work fine on the XP, it
recognizes the USB FDD as B:, then treats it in exactly the same
shabby way it treats A:


Chris

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