On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David McBride wrote: > I am having a lot of I/O errors with my floppys. I have changed the cable > and drive already. What is a good brand of floppy to work woth the 1680KB > format?
I tend to use whatever generic brand I come across. If the format fails, into the trash it goes. I/O errors can arise if you are attempting to back up to a full disk or if the disk is mounted when you attempt to back up. I have also encountered continuing problems with disks that have experienced either of these mistakes until I re-wrote another image on them (I suppose fsck might have done just as well, but rewriting the image was easier). Always keep backups of your floppies. I keep a history of images to refer to later. Dust is also a continuing problem for me. Thus comes the attraction of an old hard disk or a flash disk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user