I have tried various known good floppies and IDE cables, three different motherboards and Win98SE as well as WinXP Pro SP2. Trying to format a 1.44MB floppy yields the same results: The drive operates normally for a moment then just stops working. Only shutting the PC down completely and powering it back up will make the drive eject the disk again. At this point the disk can not be ejected.
The drive reads for a moment, maybe copies one or two files and then just stops and blinks. It reads and writes 120MB SuperDisks just fine but when trying to read from or write to regular 1.44MB floppies it causes the system to hang under Win98SE and Explorer to crash under WinXP. We are ask already the company which one is buils this machine for upgrade,but is allmost to expencive,the machine is 10 years old,so for now I must work like it is.Yesterday I picked up a bunch of hardware containing among other things a 1998 LS-120 drive made by MATSUSHITA, model LKM-F734-1. You are right about that!This is real old stuff,becouse today almost no one use floppy anymore,but I need this type of floppy at my work.I must format 1.44 floppy to 720 kb,becouse this CNC machine only accept this disk and I can't buy this type of disk anymore,so if I like to made a program for machine I need this format. And you get twice the space on your floppies (transfer twice as much) and no need to scotch tape the other hole (what an annoyance). Personally, I'd opt for upgrading the drive in the CNC controller if possible though - it's supported by BIOS, OS and all on the CNC machine (unlike say, using USB flash drives instead or such), and there's no need to downgrade your XP or look for specific software to write to older floppies and such (every PC with a floppy drive these days supports 'em).
Lots of machine shop tools like that run plain old DOS on very old hardware (most of the time 486 and older, and a bit of "newer" P1's). I would normally 100% agree with you on that point - old, obsolete legacy junk I don't want near any of my systems.īut it's a CNC machine.
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