Sometimes the drive reads the floppies, sometimes not, I've cleaned the heads with alcohol...
But...
It may reads the data, but cannot boots from a system floppy.
The floppies are working great to my floppy drive on my modern PC.
So is a hardware issue?
Is fixable, or just the drive is dying?
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Try a different cable, some disks which have been heavily used can be more sensitive also.
Screw period correct; I wanted a faster system back then. I choose no dropped frames, super fast loading, fully compatible and quiet operation.
I have that in my mind...
These Sony and and 3M floppies are 25 years old...
Also, I waiting for a brand new dual floppy cable to add a 5.25" 1.2 MB floppy drive to the system.
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wrote:So is a hardware issue?
Depends. Are you using a normal ISA FDC card, an Multi-I/O card with FDC and IDE or an on-board FDC controller ? Is the PC a 286/386/486 or a 586 ?
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It's a VLB Multi I/O card with UMC chipset. The LCS-6924, dated on 1995...
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Could be head alighment by the sounds of it. A replacement should be easy enough to get.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
