Floppy Drive

[sim085]

Hi,

This got to mind and I thought I just ask. After I got out my amiga again I wanted to test which floppy disks still work and which floppy disk do not. I had previously purchased Workbench 3.1 original disks and manage to install Workbench on a hard disk without any problems.

Obviously when I started to try the disks one by one - around a hundred - many of disks did not work. Most of them made that very painful noise before not working. The problem is that when I tried the original Workbench disks again the floppy started to tell me that there was a checksum error. However sometimes it does manage to load without any problem.

Do you people think I should invest in a floppy drive cleaner? Or?

[sim085]

Mine does surrender but (I do not know how to explain a noise in words :$) only after like two consecutive runs of this noise (the noise takes only a second or two). To be onest I always remeber the drive doing so when inserting a corrupted disk.

Also all checksum errors from the good disks seem to disapear when I blow (to remove any dust) inside the drive. Then if I insert another corrupted disk, chances are that the good disk will also display a checksum error.

[sim085]

Thanks to all for the replies. I was thinking of buying one of these;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-5-Floppy-Disk-Disc-Cleaner-PC-Amiga-Dry-Type_W0QQitemZ290396663108QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_ComputerComponents_BlankCDsDVDs?hash=item439cfd6d44

Is it worth it? or too old to do the job?