RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-10-09 Thread Kelly D. Wason
Correct, RO wouldn't be risky :) Kelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Billy Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys How would mounting and unmounting a read-only v

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-10-09 Thread Billy Jacobs
-- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian > Church > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:59 AM > To: Victor McAllister; LEAF list (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys > > > At 10:48 28/09/01 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: > >Reboo

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-10-09 Thread Kelly D. Wason
where. regards Kelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian Church Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:59 AM To: Victor McAllister; LEAF list (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys At 10:48 28/09/01 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: >Reb

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-10-09 Thread Julian Church
At 10:48 28/09/01 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: >Reboots can fail when the diskette surface >is coated with dust settling in over several months through the open diskette >window. I have found dust to be the biggest enemy of my LEAF images. Sorry to come back to this thread almost a week after

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-10-01 Thread John Hamill
G'day Fujitsu SCSI drives certainly have a write protect switch/jumper, but not the IDE range. John >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2001 6:14 AM >To: LEAF list >Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] Flopp

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> In my case, this would not help. I have not found an appreciable > difference between 1680K reliability and 1440K reliability. There should be no major difference between 1680K and 1440K reliability. Both formats use the same number of tracks, and the same bit-density. The only difference is

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread smorilla
that much time ago!!! (Surely hardware uses a different time scale) -Mensaje original- De: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado el: Friday, September 28, 2001 18:22 Para: SMorilla CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys On Fri, 28 S

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > May be you can let me know what the "write protect" switch is mean for on SCSI > drives!!! Sounds to me like the separate write protect switch I had mentioned: > I have an old ST15150N 4GB!! drive I was hoping to use with LRP, just because >

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread smorilla
o use with LRP, just because this "write protect" feature!! Thanks for your info!!! Sergio -Mensaje original- De: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado el: Friday, September 28, 2001 17:51 Para: SMorilla CC: "LEAF list" <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A bit off topic. > > Some time ago I've read about write protecting a hard disk. > This was done via tweaking with the IDE cables, if I´m not wrong you just cut > one of the > cables, insert an on/off switch an voila!!! > Problem is... I can't remem

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread smorilla
CC: "David McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LEAF list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Asunto: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David B. Cook wrote: > I have found the same thing. In fact, I have yet to deply my > EigerSteinBeta2 for exactly that reaso

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David B. Cook wrote: > 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

RE: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread David McBride
; LEAF list (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys 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

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Victor McAllister
"David B. Cook" wrote: > 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 th

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread David B. Cook
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

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Tim Hicks
- Original Message - From: "David McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LEAF list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: [Leaf-user] Floppys > I am having a lot of I/O errors with my floppys. I have changed the cable > and drive already. What is a g

Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys

2001-09-28 Thread Jeff Newmiller
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 i