Grandcheapskate
Veteran Member
Hi Guys,
I have a 486 I recently put together and I used a new 3.5" floppy (Inland brand) drive. However, it seems this drive will not cleanly read most disks produced on other floppy drives. It will however format and read it's own disks just fine. If I make a boot disk on another floppy drive, this drive will not read it. If I make one on this drive, it reads it just fine. Even data copied to a floppy on another machine cannot be read on thsi drive, although I may be able to get a directory listing.
I eliminated the controller as being a problem since when I hooked in another floppy drive, I could read any floppy I have.
I'm assuming either the heads are misaligned on this floppy or it has a tight tolerance and can't read most other floppies. Have you run across this before and is there any remedy?
Thanks...Joe
I have a 486 I recently put together and I used a new 3.5" floppy (Inland brand) drive. However, it seems this drive will not cleanly read most disks produced on other floppy drives. It will however format and read it's own disks just fine. If I make a boot disk on another floppy drive, this drive will not read it. If I make one on this drive, it reads it just fine. Even data copied to a floppy on another machine cannot be read on thsi drive, although I may be able to get a directory listing.
I eliminated the controller as being a problem since when I hooked in another floppy drive, I could read any floppy I have.
I'm assuming either the heads are misaligned on this floppy or it has a tight tolerance and can't read most other floppies. Have you run across this before and is there any remedy?
Thanks...Joe