I would find a drive head alignment video very helpful. Thank you
@THECHILLIPANDAАй бұрын
Great find this, I just bought a floppy disc head cleaner of amazon and they sent me a normal floppy disk, the cheek. Just order the Camlab paper, so I can clean the heads of the Atari 1040 STE I just bought and solve the disk errors. Cheers Rob, you got a new subscription.
@RobSmithDevАй бұрын
:) thank you
@futzlecker Жыл бұрын
Great video, will be happy to see how to align the head
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
I’ll put it on my list
@johnybitmap2559 Жыл бұрын
This exactly. Guess it's no trivial process... Other than just tweaking the screw one would also have to run it several times through some program like XCopy to see if the sectors are matching correctly I guess...
@gerryroberts6623 ай бұрын
i love this idea..
@COMATRON. Жыл бұрын
great awesome video - as always. you would love to see the alignment video - because FLOPPY DISKS ROCK!
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Thanks - it’s now working it’s way up my list!
@deborahberi3249 Жыл бұрын
I have at least a dozen cleaning disks in 5-1/4" and 3.5" as I'm always on the lookout especially for new 'Old' Stock because they are fairly tough to come by. This Video is an excellent resource on how to never have to worry about dwindling options for cleaning disks...great job. -Mark.
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Glad to be of help. Thanks for watching
@urlordfu Жыл бұрын
Very handy! I've been looking for these disks you found but could never find anything that would work. This looks perfect! Thanks Rob!
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
No problem hope they prove useful. They got lots of use at Kickstart01!
@Tossphate Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. I was using floppy disks earlier today
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome
@RootiferasRetroGameplay4 ай бұрын
recently I was looking for a cleaner disk on ebay, some available but they're like £30 range. I recently bought a brand new floppy drive for £14... so yeah some people are crazy
@crumplezone1 Жыл бұрын
Great hack Rob, I just made one and used small amount of PVA glue and it works really well :)
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@peddersoldchap Жыл бұрын
Drive cleaning video, please! Also, Mr. Algorithm, please notice this channel! ;)
@amigalads Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this video i have ordered up the fillers to give it a go, also would like to know how you the alignment is done on the floppy drive and what the grease is used to service the drive and if oil is needed for the motor as well
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
I’ll do a follow up video soon then, thanks for watching and hope it’s helpful
@First_Ninja Жыл бұрын
New subscriber here! I too enjoyed the video. I'd like a video addressing "floppy detection" issues. During floppy I/O, my Amiga sometimes says I "must" re-insert the floppy although it's still in the drive and I haven't even touched the eject button. So far, I've yet to see a single KZbin video discussing this. Thanks for considering it! 👍
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Hi this is actually a really simple annoying thing and it happened to me. The little switches at the front of the drive, look like black or white posts connect to a switch. One is used to detect write protect, the other for the presence of a disk. Over time the switch contacts become dirty which is what causes this. You can clean them with contact cleaner, it’s tricky but can be done. I may do a video on this at some pojnt
@bjarkeistruppedersen8213 Жыл бұрын
I don't have a need for it - but because it is really interresting, and someone with the need might be looking in the future, I would like a video on how to align the heads 🙂
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
I’ll put it on my list
@wazmaccaLFC Жыл бұрын
Hi. Where can I get the cleaning fabric from. Thanks in advance ?
Those floppy disk drives are not so scary now.....thank you
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome
@ajkuba3662 Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much I hope u help I have some disk but my keyboard won't read them is show me on screen this different products does mean the type of the disk I'm using and can u please give website where I can buy disk from
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Hi, sorry I’m not sure I understand what you are asking?
@ajkuba3662 Жыл бұрын
@RobSmithDev thanks anyway coz I have disk they have information it's seems to be work coz sometimes they read out sometimes no can u please do us video on how to save disk into computer then install them into new disk
@paranoidgenius9164 Жыл бұрын
Can you use baby wipes instead of filter paper? I will always remember that exact capacity of a 1.44MB floppy without fail! 1,457,664 bytes! You can still do something meaningful with this much capacity, especially storing raw computer code.
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
Ever tried it but I suspect they’ll be too soft and might get stuck. Plus I don’t know what may be in them chemical wise
@sallywolf4340 Жыл бұрын
show how to align
@DaveVelociraptor Жыл бұрын
I want you to cover how to realign the drive in a future video
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
😃it’s on my list now
@iangeorgewhatton75416 ай бұрын
Unfortunately I have a broken magnetic strip in my old Floppy Drive so I can't do anything with it.
@RobSmithDev6 ай бұрын
Magnetic strip?
@alexk3948 Жыл бұрын
Cleaning disks are ineffective at resolving a problem with a dirty head. They are intended to be used regularly on a clean head but one bad disk and it will undo all that preventative work. Cotton wool sticks are far more effective and you can buy them super cheap in the girls beauty section.
@RobSmithDev Жыл бұрын
As a some-what expert with floppy disks they do work well, and have always worked for me. I agree that directly cleaning the head can work better or quicker, but these are great if you don’t want to take the drive apart.
@alexk3948 Жыл бұрын
@@RobSmithDev Cleaning disks have always worked? I've had several drives where cleaning disks have been a waste of time and the only way to get them working is with a cotton wool stick. Maybe it depends on the cause of the dirt. If it's just the gradual accumulation from usage maybe a cleaning disk would be fine but if it's an old dirty disk that has caused the problem then it's more likely to need cotton wool sticks.
@kevinharrison49097 ай бұрын
floppy drives and it's media were never meant to last this long, but here we are 40 years later. But the media now is decaying to the point where the magnetic layer is stripping off the discs. You can have a brand new sealed in shrinkwrap boxed disks unopened and half of them refuse to format without bad sectors. That's discs that have had no use or wear with the drive head. No amount of cleaning is going to fix this. The drives themselves can have restorative maintainance replacing caps, regreasing worm screws and head cleaning, but the media for them is becoming increasingly unusable over time. Someone needs to start a kickstarter and re-manufacture some new media theres no other way around this.
@RobSmithDev7 ай бұрын
Its weird, the older the disk I have are, the better they are holding up! but yes, could do with them being mae somewhere
@kevinharrison49097 ай бұрын
@@RobSmithDev 5.25 disks were generally more robust despite the lack of protection encasement offered by 3.5". Lower density and better materials before everything started to go cheap mid 90s