It... seems to be working reliably again now. I'd still be interested in finding a spare/compatible, even if it's a bare drive without the card edge connector, but somehow now that i've been prodding it and doing absolutely nothing different other than booting off it a few times, it seems to be operating just fine under DOS 5
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 5:15 AM Gary Sparkes <mok...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, i'm having a fair amount of trouble with my PS/2's floppy > drive... wanted to back up my BBS and none of the disks i put in would read > or format! > > Oddly though, it WILL boot a disk that's inserted on power-on. > > I hear it try and hit the disk a few times while in dos repeatedly before > failing with the R/A/F options ... and format tries to read it, then goes > attempts to format it, and can't find sector 0 ..... > > I'm really confused about those symptoms since it boots the only bootable > disk I had on hand - ironically spinrite 6 (I'm aware of how useful it > is...) - so i'm looking at replacing it ... or figuring out what's wrong > with it that it can boot a disk just fine, but not use one while in DOS ? > > > .... and by wiggling the floppy a bit I just got it to format a disk while > in the ... drive, and now it's making the noise it did before and stalling > occasionally. > > Perhaps the disk just isn't catching fully? > > -- > Gary G. Sparkes Jr. > KB3HAG > -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG