djfitzgerald
Experienced Member
I'm trying to use my AT to work with 1.2 MB "high capacity" 5.25" inch disks. I had a stack of IBM red label disks, a couple of odds and ends, and then a shrink-wrapped pack of IBM red label disks. What surprising me is that I am finding read errors on all of my 1.2MB floppies, including the ones from the shrink-wrapped box. I'm not seeing similar problems with any of my 3M 500k floppies in the same drive.
I'm suspicious that this is happening on almost all of my 1.2MB disks. Do you think this is just bad luck, or could there be a hardware problem with my floppy drive? For the record, this is the 1.2MB "A" drive in the 5170, and Norton Utilities confirms that its supposedly a 1.2MB drive.
I'm suspicious that this is happening on almost all of my 1.2MB disks. Do you think this is just bad luck, or could there be a hardware problem with my floppy drive? For the record, this is the 1.2MB "A" drive in the 5170, and Norton Utilities confirms that its supposedly a 1.2MB drive.