| From: | Voytek Laniewski |
| Date: | 19 Sep 2000 at 19:00:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Floppy Nightmare |
Hello Colin
On 18-Sep-00, Colin Wenzel wrote:
> I have a * BIG ANNOYING SCREAMING BUG*
> that has been around forever, it is about time it was fixed
> or at least repaired to some further degree...
>
> When copying a floppy with a wonky cylinder or several,
> the requester:
> "Volume: blah has a read write error on block #####"
> "Retry" - "Cancel"
>
> If you retry, it just keeps coming back, forever.
> If you "Cancel" it aborts trying that cylinder & tries the next one..
> That usually fails too, it just keeps coming up forever & ever & ever.
>
> The floppy passes a format ok, but fails at some point & "Cancel"
> appears to be ineffective as EVERY cylinder to the end of the disk
> is apparently "faulty" too....
>
> How is this possible if it passed the "long" format ??
Maybe it's a hardware problem? I have something similar happening: sometimes
I can read a floppy disk ok and later on the same disk gives me problems. I
think that my floppy drive is near the end of its life (where is the
BoXeR?).
Voytek