Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] emc

720K (DD) disks are a lot more tolerant to dirt and misalignment than 1.4M
(HD) disks. Very often a drive that no longer reads HD disks will still read
DD disks.

Les

> >
> > > The floppy works as a floppy should, and I can and have set boot
> > > options every way they can be set.
> > >
> > > >First check your BIOS setup again. IF that seems OK and one of the
> > > >boot options is definitely 'floppy', then go to
> > www.bootdisk.com and
> > > >download yourself a new boot floppy image of dos 6.22
> > >
> > > I already have a boot disc in DOS6.22 that works on other machines
> > > and not this one.
> > >
> > > Regards, Hoyt
> > >
> >
> > Hoyt,
> >
> > If you have your bios set to boot from floppy, and the disk
> > is good, then the
> > reason it won't boot is NOT because you have linux on the hard drive.
> >
> > Does the floppy drive light light up as if it is trying to
> > read on boot?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> I went through the same thing recently. Tried three different floppy
> drives. Final result was to change power supplies. Floppy drives seem
> to be more sensitive to PSU's than CDROM or hard drives. The symptoms
> were almost exactly the same. Booted and ran Linux (quite well, too)
> from hard drive, sometimes booted from CDROM, never floppy.
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sister site to the CCED group, as many of the same members are there, for OT
subjects, that are not allowed on the CCED list.

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