Hi, It is possible that the read and write heads in one of those floppy
drives is just slightly out of alignment. With expensive floppy drives now
selling everywhere for $20, and cheap ones costing closer to $15 each,
nobody seriously does head alignment on floppy drives any more. Of course,
if you used a FAT32 formatting scheeme on a floppy disk on the Win 98
machine, nothing on the DOS-only or DOS/Win 3X machine will be able to read
that floppy, or even to recognize it as a DOS formatted disk.
Format a blank disk in the floopy drive of the DOS machine and copy some
files to that floppy. Then, see if the floppy drive in the Win 98 machine
can read the files, copy the files, or reliably modify a file and rewrite it
back to the DOS machine's disk. If the Win machine's Floppy drive
won't propperly read the DOS machines floppy disk, the way the DOS
machine's floppy drive won't correctly read the Win machine's floppy disk,
then you can suspect a difference in the head alignments between the two
floppy drives. You can test each machine's floppy disks on a third machine,
if you have one for further suspicion of an alignment problem. Of course,
before doing any of those tests, try cleaning the floppy drives with a
floppy disk cleaning kit to rule out the possibilty of dirty drive heads.
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