[Web4lib] floppy disk issues

[Thomas Bennett]

Floppy Drive alignment software can be run on the patron's home drive and on 
your public machine(s) drive(s).  An example of this type of software can be 
found at:

http://www.accurite.com/DriveProbe.html

Search Google for: floppy drive calibration

You will probably find other software also.

Somewhere very deep in my software archive I have a program that claimed to 
realign the read/write head on a floppy.  I guess it could if the stepper 
motor can actually move in fractions of a step.


Thomas


On Friday 27 April 2007 14:12, Erjavek, Ed wrote:
> We were curious if anyone has had any success dealing with a growing
> problem for us with patrons trying to have info read on their floppy disks.
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> It isn't a question of the hardware on the floppy drive being bad as the
> sectors on the floppy disk not lining up.
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> The issue is likely that was the original computer that the patron's
> document was saved on. The chances are best that the document will be able
> to read on the machine that it was originally created on.
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> When the patron tries to open that document on another machine, it may or
> may not be able to read that document because the heads on the floppy disk
> drive may or may not be able to read the sectors on the floppy disk because
> they don't line up properly.
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> Does anyone out there have any ideas how to alleviate this problem?
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> Thanks, Ed
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