On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:39:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > So I'm leaning toward two bad floppy drives in two machines within my > house. I'll know more when I can try these floppies in a third and maybe > fourth Debian box at work tomorrow. It could be just dirty heads. You may be able to find a floppy head-cleaning disk that would be easier than head cleaner on a foam swab. Doug.