Modern floppy disk question...

[John Hogerhuis]

On 5/4/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
  
> I use USB floppy drives, and one refurb HP desktop that runs WinXP
> Pro. No idea what drive is in it, but it always works.  Can't
> recall a media problem on it.
> 
> 

Allison made the point that fans sucking dirt into the drive probably
causes problems. I've found the same thing.

Using an external floppy drive, USB or otherwise, is one way to take
the fan out of the equation.

-- John.