floppy problems organization compact solutions canberra act australia i have a floppy drive which has developed general failure errors it s a teac mb drive i took it out of the machine and noticed it was very dusty i used a high powered air can to blow all this dust out and it s quite clean now however it didn t help the problem i ve also identified that when the machine boots and the drive seeks for a boot disk the head movement during this process is now approximately half the length of the original time what i mean is the period when the drive light comes on and the heads move from their retracted position out to the track containing the boot sector is there anything more i can do to try and save this drive i d prefer not to shell out for a new one if i can help it thanks cheers ben ben j elliston bachelor of engineering computer engineering university of canberra ooo ooo email compsol fir canberra edu au v also ellib cbr cpsg com au uucp uunet munnari sserve adfa oz au compsol root fidonet origin compact solutions canberra act australia
