[Duo2400] Re: "Bus Error" from floppy

[Patrick Selliers]

I agree - and understand. It´s a beautiful thing in itself. It´s a pity. Has anyone
actually taken apart a 2400 floppy drive without harming it?

Patrick Selliers

Herman Atienza wrote:

> thanks for the advice. i realized i dont really *need* the floppy...but
> it was kinda neat to have ;-) i think it may be a hardware issue,
> actually. nothing works when a disk is inserted...
>
> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 02:56 PM, Patrick Selliers wrote:
>
> > Herman,
> >
> > Generally any 1.44 Mb Floppy (Mac or Pc) will work - unless there has
> > been damage to the media. Any PC 1.44 Mb floppy inserted into a
> > working floppy drive will result in a dialogue box asking you would
> > you wish to reformat it into Mac format. Try reformatting on another
> > mac and the try using it on the 2400. If this doesn´t
> > work - it´s likely that either the 2400 floppy drive or something on
> > the recipient side: anything from a pinched cable to the 2400
> > motherboard is at fault. You may have a combination of issues too: it
> > is fairly common that 2400 floppy drives mount the inserted floppy,
> > but then refuse to eject it. Inserting an "unfolded"
> > paper clip (metal) into the tiny hole on the front of the drive will
> > usually get it out. Admittedly this is not a very attractive solution
> > in the long run. I´d lose the floppy and go for Compact Flash media
> > (pc-card) on the road combined with an ethernet pc-card or simply use
> > plain AppleTalk via the old printer cable. The
> > latter is slow for larger files, but it´s cheap. Both solutions are to
> > be preferred to the 2400 floppy drive when it comes to saving on bulk
> > and weight. Plus you won´t be limited to 1.44 Mb storage no more.
> >
> > Patrick Selliers
> >
> >
> >
> > Herman Atienza wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> i recently got the Powerbook 2400 that i'd always dreamed of getting.
> >> It's a lot of fun, a classic machine. but i cant seem to get the
> >> floppy to run, under 9.0.4. inserting a pc-formatted floppy causes a
> >> bus error (i dont have any mac-format floppies left, lol) and i was
> >> wondering if anyone had any advice or tips? thanks.
> >>
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