Sigh. I'm beginning to wonder if old floppy drives and I have irreconcilable differences . . .
So the TM100-2 was working, then it wasn't. Booting fine on my Model 1 in single density. Then it just . . . stopped. Playing a bit produced no results. So I moved it over to my Model 4 as drive 2 (yes, I did enable drive 2). Trying to read a disk sees it trying for a long time before declaring the drive empty. As opposed to immediate reporting of the drive empty when there is no disk in it. OK, I think, maybe the alignment has drifted that last bit to non-reading. So I tried formatting a drive in it A not nice noise and LS-DOS declares "Drive not in system".
Suggestions? Does that sound like it could just be heads in need of cleaning? Or something more ugly?
I've had a TP drive and this TM100 both stop working in recent times. In both cases they were connected to the Model 1 when they stopped. Is there any way the EI could "damage" the drive via bad signalling down the cable?
(Note front light still comes on for both M1 and M4 usage)
PJH
So the TM100-2 was working, then it wasn't. Booting fine on my Model 1 in single density. Then it just . . . stopped. Playing a bit produced no results. So I moved it over to my Model 4 as drive 2 (yes, I did enable drive 2). Trying to read a disk sees it trying for a long time before declaring the drive empty. As opposed to immediate reporting of the drive empty when there is no disk in it. OK, I think, maybe the alignment has drifted that last bit to non-reading. So I tried formatting a drive in it A not nice noise and LS-DOS declares "Drive not in system".
Suggestions? Does that sound like it could just be heads in need of cleaning? Or something more ugly?
I've had a TP drive and this TM100 both stop working in recent times. In both cases they were connected to the Model 1 when they stopped. Is there any way the EI could "damage" the drive via bad signalling down the cable?
(Note front light still comes on for both M1 and M4 usage)
PJH