Well I do, of course, because it's just happened to me. A state of the art HP box suitable for server duty with some serious RAID possibilities has just been misbehaving because of the floppy drive. Why they wanted a floppy in it in the first place is unknown but that's the way it was purchased. Suddenly it keeps flagging disc errors with almost every click on the mouse. I re-installed all the drivers and did the usual checks and, then when I was out of ideas, I remembered having seen something similar once before. I put a disc in the drive and, lo, there was an awakening. Simply switching the dam' thing off in Windows was enough to stop the problem but, after consultation with the long suffering technical officer, I also switched it off in the BIOS. Everybody happy and a feather etc.
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