I have no idea what i possibly could have done. What could make 3, otherwise happy healthy, floppy drives stop reading at the same time. Here's the backstory:
I have a Classic with an external Western Digital 40mg hard drive. This, along with my iBook, is the computer that I do most of my work on. Recently, I stumbled upon a 128k upgraded to a 512ke and a Plus. I also picked up a couple of external 800k floppy drives and connected them to the 512ke and the Plus. The first thing I did was make start-up disks for the 512ke and the Plus on my Classic. Included in this purchase was about a hundred floppy disks. Some of them are software. The majority were files. . . fonts, clip-art and a few dirty pictures, etc. About 80% of these floppies were 800k and the rest were 1.4mg. Last night I sat down and started sorting through all these floppies. . . keeping fonts, throwing away personal files, intializing disks for me store my own files on and so on. I was using the 512ke to open files and if there was something that I wanted to save, I moved it to the Classic. The point is that there was a lot of back and forth disk swapping between the three computers. I'm fairly certain that I never put a 1.4mg disk into the 512ke or the Plus and Classic should have no trouble reading anything. Suddenly, all three drives stopped reading all disks. Weird! What the heck did I do this time? Please help. Need to get some work done this weekend. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
