Formatting a floppy disk?

[smerf]

Hi all i am having problems with formatting my 880k floppys, they are brand new disks but whenever i format them under workbench i get errors saying it cant read cylinders so i ran x-copy pro and im able to format them under that just curious to know if anyone has had similiar problems?

Hi,

@carvedeye,

Having the same problem myself, but I am finding out that the magnetic media, on my old disks is starting to crumble after 30 - 35 years.
I also found out that on my A500 drives if you look at the heads under a magnifying glass that the face is about worn out, we can thank some of the old software developers with their copy protection in zipping the heads across the disks for this.

Only advice I can give is try formatting more than once, if your using high density disks, with one of the two holes covered your old disk drive may not have the power anymore to format it. During the past three months since pulling my disks out of the spare room, I have thrown over 800 disks out due to magnetic media crumble (after taking disks apart, have noticed flaking on the media disk itself.

Yes,

Old age affects everything, even me.

smerf

[smerf]

its df0: and my amiga is towered with an AT power supply

Hi,

If you are using an AT power supply, is it hooked up from a floppy disk hook up to the power on your Amiga. I have had the problem when I made my own supply in believing that the power plug was enough, but after about a month of playing with my tower I found that I had to use the main power plug of the AT supply to power the back connector, and then the rest of the plugs that powered the hard drive and floppies to power the you guessed it the hard drives and floppies.

Why?

I don't know, it was just the way it worked on my build, but I think it has something to do with amperage pull, but can't prove it.

BTW my AT power supply I made myself, and with using the plugs as intended by the AT supply mfg. it all worked great, now my other rant about Amiga Technologies disk drives

THEY SUCK!!!

Made the mod on my Amiga 1200 and used an old drive from a old burned up A500 and yes they do burn up after 25 years, can you say SMOKE CHECK WITH FLAMES.

smerf