Change the floppy drive (preferably with a new good one) and see if
floppies still get damaged. Check if floppies can be read and written to
repeatedly under Win98. It's very likely a hardware problem. (if it is,
don't try to repair the floppy drive, get a new one)
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Ashley Moore/Salmaniya/BatelcoNotes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> HELP !!!
> I'm having a bit of a problem. I hope someone can help me out.
> I have Mandrake 7.0 running on my home computer (AMD K6 III) I canonly read
> from the floppy drive, but not able to write anything to it. the disk
> becomes unusable after that. The same drive works fine in Win98 and WinNT.
> I have verified all BIOS settings,etc. Reading info from a disk in the
> drive works well, but writing always fails, right from the time of
> installation when I was prompted to make a boot disk. Has anybody faced
> this problem? I'm still very much a linux newbie.
> Do you need more diagnostic info to pin-point my problem. just lemme know.
>
> Thanks 'n Regards,
> Ashley Moore - IXD17
> E-Mail System Administrator,
> Batelco, Bahrain.
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