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12-22-2003, 10:02 PM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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Dead floppy drive?
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.
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12-22-2003, 10:04 PM
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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 |
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12-22-2003, 10:05 PM
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Yeap! That is one way.
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12-22-2003, 10:35 PM
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Barefoot on the Moon!
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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.  Thanks guys 
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12-22-2003, 10:42 PM
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well, how about that new technology all the time, man its hard to keep up with this fast paced stuff.
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