disk drive ... strange behavior

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Hi,

the df0 in my A2000 seems to have problems when writing on a floppy. When I put a floppy in it reads all the data without any failures. In case I format or copy it stops at a certain sector and the screen shows the message "bad sector".

I am sure the floppies were ok before putting them into the drive because I used them on my A1200 before.

What could I do? I wonder if anyone did come across the same problem.

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Piru wrote:
@textory

Reading and writing are different operations, reading is much less prone to problems than writing. So if the floppy is marginal it's much more likely to fail when writing.

Interesting. Did not know. Do you think cleaning would help?

I opened my A2000 which I bought last months on ebay. The df0 seems to be an original drive while df1 is a chinon drive (I suppose the chinon wasn't built in by C=). I was thinking about using df1 as df0 and connecting an external drive as df1 but I'm a bit confused about the jumper settings. Well, I'll give it a try...