Dead floppy drive?

[Force Flow]

I've never had a floppy drive fail on me, so I'm not really sure what the symptoms are.

The floppy drive I'm using always gives me a "disk write protection" error whenever I try to write something to the floppy. It sometimes has problems reading the disks, as well. The floppies I've tried are fine; they work in other drives with no problems.

[bailey]

the write protect led may be bad or blocked out by something.
it it looks ok then just replace it, the drive that is
for 8 bucks, there not worth fussing with

[morriswindgate]

Yeap! That is one way.

[Force Flow]

I have some loose drives in my stash of parts I can choose from to replace it.

Btw, the drive isn't using LEDs to determine write-protection. It uses plastic pins and one of them broke off so it can't be pressed down to enable writing data to the disk. :p

Thanks guys :)

[bailey]

well, how about that new technology all the time, man its hard to keep up with this fast paced stuff.