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Virginia
I have the same floppy disk problem. It is my uderstanding that floppy
drives are now being fazed out of new computers both because of their low
capacity AND unreliability.
I have heard that small differences in the allignment of the drive heads can
make otherwise functioning floppies useless on a different computer. Also, I
have heard that different floppy drives have differing abilities to read
deteriorating disks. What is readable on Brand X drive, may not be readable
on Brand Y drive. Dell does not always use the same manufacturer on every
computer it puts together.
This is why our school is moving to a file/print server for student work,
and linking that server to the CWS machines. Furthermore, since writable CD
disks are much less expensive now, we are buying them and starting to use
them like floppies. This can be expecially useful when a teacher writies
large files from a CWS machine and uses them later on a student machine
(like a large PowerPoint file).
John Carroll
Stevens Ed Tech
jscarroll@seattleschools.org
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From: Allemann, Virginia
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:19 PM
To: tic-tech
Subject: tictech: floppy disks
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Here's a problem we are having. Any ideas?
We put a floppy disk into one of our new Dell student computers, and it says
that the disk is not formatted-- would you like to format it now? This is a
disk that has been used successfully in the CWS machines, and in my
librarian's laptop. What could be the reason that the student computers
can't read it?
Thanks!
Virginia Allemann
Librarian
Salmon Bay School (formerly COHO*NOMS)
(206) 252-1737
vaallemann@seattleschools.org
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