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Performa 5260 800k floppy
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1809808" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Wow...got to shake out the cobwebs for this one! Lol</p><p></p><p>Want to share a bit of info I learned way way back when floppy disks were commonplace...and in the years since then. I've found that as the mechanical floppy drive mechanisms age...they can be very temperamental. What I mean by temperamental is...floppy disks formatted & then written to with the same floppy drive usually work fine...but take floppy disks formatted and/or written to with a different flopppy drive (floppy drive A)...may not work so well in floppy drive B. </p><p></p><p>As a floppy drive age's (is used)...the alignment of the floppy drive read/write head changes in alignment. Thus a floppy disk written to from one floppy drive...may not work so well in another floppy drive in another computer.</p><p></p><p>A 2nd issue with old magnetic floppy disks is...they can be very very prone to degradation. Basically the magnetic floppy disk media degrades over time...and when someone attempts to use an old floppy disk...the drive may not beable to read it...or you get lots of errors.</p><p></p><p>In this case all you can do is get a computer with an operable floppy drive...and hope for the best. But if errors are encountered...it could be due to worn mechanical drive mechanisms not able to read the disk properly...or the floppy disk media itself has degradated to the point that the disk is unreadable.</p><p></p><p>Good luck,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1809808, member: 56379"] Wow...got to shake out the cobwebs for this one! Lol Want to share a bit of info I learned way way back when floppy disks were commonplace...and in the years since then. I've found that as the mechanical floppy drive mechanisms age...they can be very temperamental. What I mean by temperamental is...floppy disks formatted & then written to with the same floppy drive usually work fine...but take floppy disks formatted and/or written to with a different flopppy drive (floppy drive A)...may not work so well in floppy drive B. As a floppy drive age's (is used)...the alignment of the floppy drive read/write head changes in alignment. Thus a floppy disk written to from one floppy drive...may not work so well in another floppy drive in another computer. A 2nd issue with old magnetic floppy disks is...they can be very very prone to degradation. Basically the magnetic floppy disk media degrades over time...and when someone attempts to use an old floppy disk...the drive may not beable to read it...or you get lots of errors. In this case all you can do is get a computer with an operable floppy drive...and hope for the best. But if errors are encountered...it could be due to worn mechanical drive mechanisms not able to read the disk properly...or the floppy disk media itself has degradated to the point that the disk is unreadable. Good luck, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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