I have found the same thing. In fact, I have yet to deply my EigerSteinBeta2 for exactly that reason. I seem to quite frequently get floppy errors and I'm not comfortable on its stability. Is the problem the format, the physical drives or what? I was beginning to think I was doing something stupid.
Maybe I should just accept the fact and move to an a:/b: floppy? dbc. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > 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 > -- David B. Cook, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux -- up 14 days because it can. 12:24pm up 14 days, 18:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
