"This disk is unreadable; do you want to reformat it?".
"Reformatting failed because this disk is defective".
This is a new floppy drive and the disks are Mac floppies (old Apple system files). I installed the floppy drive only about a week ago and for a few days, it worked OK
Maybe poke around the machine's guts and make sure all the cables are seated well?
But more importantly: clean the drive, then try some NEW floppies... Old floppies may seem to work, but they DO degrade and end up leaving schmutz on the drive's heads.
Is there such a thing as a driver for a floppy drive? If so, Sherlock has been unable to find it. Part of the OS?
There are two floppy drivers. One is in the boot ROM. And an updated one is in the System suitcase. If either were foo, you wouldn't boot. (Has nothing to do with booting from a floppy per se; the driver is just hard-wired into the seek sequence used to *find* a bootable device).
- Dan.
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