[[Shizo]]

Goddam, i have a floppy drive phibia. You know how when you use a floppy to dump some files on it or read from it, the light on the drive is still lit for a few seconds after it's done reading/writing.
So my phobia is that i never take out the floppy when the light is on thinking that it might damage the disc cause it's still "spinning" but im pretty sure it doesnt.
Anybody more technical about floppy drives can dissolve, or reassure, my floppy phobia?

Thank you.

[soogarrush]

i have the cdrom phobia

cant remember the last time ive used a floppy, but i rmemeber when its writing/reading...it wont allow you to eject.

[Ragnarok]

I remember reading in some floppy drive manual something about not ejecting the disket before the light goes off...
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[Andromeda]

my floppy disc wont eject properly .... its been YEARS since i last used a floppy, and sometimes i stick it in just for kicks .. cos it used to spit the disc out really far ...
but now it just kinda gets stuck there.
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[Matthew]

hey I have a winamp 3 Phobia, it�s to scary and I think the Last NO 2 version is better.

Matthew

[Svanur]

Floppies are evil I tell you. They draw you in with a false sense of security and as you think you have just backed up that latest pic the floppy becomes obsolete, broken, destroyed or something worse. That's why I try to avoid floppies. If I am forced to use them I use several of them, just to outsmart them. The floppies are out there and they are pissed...
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[Giant Hamster]

I removed the floppy drive from my computer because it just takes up a drive letter, get's accessed by some programs durring loading making a stupid chug sound and also takes up an IRQ aswell as one of the slots on my tower. so ph34r having it in.

[[Shizo]]

Heh that's crap cause i need my floppies! Those angry lil' bastads.
I dont have internet at home (i moved away from internet haha) and to get stuff to my home computer i have to use floppies.
I'm still stransfering some big VST instrument to my house cause it takes up like 8 floppies and one turned out to be corrupt goddam.
Anyways, i guess i'll keep on trusting my phobia instincts since none of you geeks know for sure ..

[lalPOOO]

I'm doing the same thing as Giant hamster, but i've got a suggestion

CD/RW its great fun to save disks and be able to rely on the data.

[Brain]

I'm currently borrowing the computer infront of me, and only upgraded a coupla parts to it, like a Radeon 9700, keybrrd and... floppy drive. It felt weird not having one in there. There's on CDRW in here, so that may be the reason. It feels wrong having NO way to back up one's data, even though I can upload it somewhere.

$25 well spent? Who knows...
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[nova]

gum solves all floppy drive problems. if the disk is stuck, put it on the end of an eraser, jam it in the drive and pull it out. if it doesn't work when you try it another time, get another stick of gum, put it in your mouth and chew away your worries.
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[merlyns]

floppys are evil creations, once I0ve putted me entire school esay on it because I couldn't print. so my teacher wanted to read the stupid thing and she got an error. well conclusion I got a D.

never use floppys . there evil I tell you.

-david
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[lalPOOO]

My geography teacher lost everyone in the classes "projects" because her disk failed.

...bonus for me, because mine was shitty

[Dr. Bang]

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