Hi,
replacing the drive worked !!! Thanks a ton for the suggestion. The reason
I never thought it was a h/w problem, the drive worked perfectly under
win98, winnt. i could read / write / format perfectly. from linux i could
only read. if i ever tried to write the disk became useless, even win98 or
nt could not format it.
for some reason changing the drive has solved the problem completely.
thanks once again.
Thanks 'n Regards,
Ashley Moore - IXD17
E-Mail System Administrator,
Batelco, Bahrain.
Tel. +973 883529
Mobile. +973 9470515
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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.
> Tel. +973 883529
> Mobile. +973 9470515
> Fax. +973 9103529
>
>
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