Full Version: A: drive starts up and
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#11]
11 Sep 2006
To: Puck (PUCKERBRUSH) [#10] 11 Sep 2006
Been there, done that twice recently.
You have my sympathies.
As far as the floppies, memory says that the drives have changed. They now sense that a disk is not in the drive and report that immediately rather then three tries to read the disk.
What is working for me at the moment is an easy solution. I bought a USB hard drive case, installed an 80 gig drive in it and a USB 2 card in the computer. My backups are now on that drive which is shut except when it is in use. I was running it on USB 1.1 and it was OK, the USB 2 card sped it up an amazing amount. Just be sure that you do not have it set to synchronize, it will not allow you to disconnect it if you synchronize it.
EDITED: 11 Sep 2006 by HARVEY-ONLY