Backup Floppies

[Brtman]

I've got a CS 1000 PBX and recently I noticed an error showing up when I overlay passthru to the PBX. The error states that the nightly backup did not complete. I ran LD 143 / abko and it replied that it could not format the floppy. Do I need to replace the floppy disk with a 1.44mb floppy or is there a special floppy disk that will work?

 

[GHTROUT]

Any store-bought 1.44 meg formatted floppy diskette will work.




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[Brtman]

I've tried using a brand new 1.44mb floppy but get the same error. I moved the floppy from core 1 to core 0 and it worked fine, but I still need to get a replacement.

 

[GHTROUT]

Ohh... I see. So it looks like hardware? I think any drive will work too, but it means taking the thing apart....and then it might not be the drive at all.




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[Brtman]

No.. I mean I took the floppy disk out of core 1 and put it in core 0's floppy drive and core 0 backed up fine.

 

[GHTROUT]

OK, it's not the drive and it's not the diskette? Sorry, but I dunno which core had what problem on your system.

If it is the diskette, just format one on an any Windoze/DOS PC and pop it in.

If it's the drive, well you know.

If something seems to be stuck in software, INI.




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[Brtman]

The floppy diskette is bad, and I've tried a brand new 1.44mb floppy diskette and get the same error (failure to format disk). I'm just need to know what type of floppy diskette to acquire (since the new diskette failed in the same manner).

 

[GHTROUT]

I can't tell you how many Imation, 3M or otherwise generic diskettes I've used as perfect rotational or replacement disks for these systems. Did you DOS format the one you tried first?

The only mysterious disktte ever used was the "4 meg" disktette...but a PC can't even read those.






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[Brtman]

I only Windows formatted the new diskette, not dos formatted. I will try that next.

 

[trvlr1]

Format the disk in a PC, not in the PBX

 

[hawks]

If i'm reading right it looks like you just popped the new disk into the CS1000 drive and tried to do a back-up. Follow what GHTROUT is saying and format the disk using your PC before you try to use in the system.

 

[Avaya911PLM]

Just curious....

You do have a newer CS 1000 and not an older processor running the old 2MB Floppies right?

BTW, I have litterally 80 lbs. of those old 2MB floppies laying around here if anyone wants them.

(I know it's 80 lbs. because they were shipped here!)

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[Avaya911PLM]

Sorry. I meant the 4MB floppies!

Oooops!

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[Brtman]

Ok, the original floppy diskette went bad. The replacement floppy diskette I tried first was formatted using Windows. Once I formatted it using DOS it worked great. The floppy diskette size was 1.44mb.

Thanks for everyones help!!!

 

[Avaya911PLM]

And GHTROUT now has about 5 lbs. of the 4MB floppies if you need a source... ;-)

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