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Article #178Re: HELP : Floppy disk drive Seek error....
From: Richard RUDEK
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 00:00
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Thomas <chetk@lure.latrobe.edu.au> wrote: >Hi.. >I have a LYMIC 486 notebook with a TEAC- FD-05HF floppy drive. >A sleek FDD for note-book. Now while aceessing it shows SEEK >ERROR.. >what does it mean.. ? Is it a software (setup)/hardware error? >Is it possible to get this type of drive, if incase I have to >buy one ..?? >pl. email me/reply with your valuable advice... >Thanks.. >Thomas If this is generated by the BIOS (as it appears), then it simply means that when the floppy was told to seek to a Cylinder, and when it got there, the track id said it was something different. In short, it couldn't read the diskette. This may be an alignment problem, but is more likely a dud Diskette. I've had this happen out of the blue more than once. Cheap diskettes usually. regards, _____ _____ ___________________________________ | _ \ | _ \ | | | |_) | | |_) | | Richard RUDEK. | Sometimes, | _ / | _ / | MicroDek. Chatswood, Sydney. | advice is worth | | \ \ | | \ \ | Australia (The Social Experiment).| what you spend. |_| \_||_| \_||___________________________________|
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