hayashi wrote:
I know that the floppy drives are being killed by physically defective disks (I think this time I killed it trying to check it for not being physically defective), and the result is a horrific scraping noise, followed by the disk spouting read errors, then "not a valid DOS disk" errors, then not reading at all.
Are you familiar with Amiga?
You should know that if a disk is NDOS, it's probably a game disk which you can boot from.
