Question Read problem on 5.25-inch internal floppy drive ?

[ken83]

Hello everyone. I have a ydata yd-380B 5.25-inch 1.2mb floppy drive According to the system as jumper 0 as single drive. I have 1.2M 3 double sided and 4 single sided 360kb disks. A: When I enter, I get the "disk cannot be read" error. It seems to format the Omnidisk, but the result is still the same. Was it on read or discs, skip or pass. Meanwhile, I cleared the reader's mind. I am sharing the image after formatting the Omnidisk. I am not sure if it's formatted or not.

 

[Ralston18]

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This drive?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bosQtQmWwM


Jumpers mentioned at 5:42

How are you connecting the drive: data and power?

 

[CountMike]

How old are diskettes, they were not very reliable even when new.

 

[fzabkar]

YD-380 Maintenance Manual:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/yeData/FDL-523006_RevC_YD-380_Service_Manual_Feb1985.pdf

 

[CountMike]

We used to have "Head cleaner diskettes" to run occasionally.

 

[Ralston18]

And remember cleaning the mouse balls? Always tough to keep a straight face and tell that to a customer......

 

[COLGeek]

Given the age of the media, I suspect there is no recovery or use of the media due to degradation.

 

[CountMike]

And remember cleaning the mouse balls? Always tough to keep a straight face and tell that to a customer......

Lol. Mouse balls, yes it was funny, people wrejust imagiining mouse big like horse.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

360K discs in a 1.2M drive were always problematic due to the vast difference in track width.