Error Messages While Backing Up to Some Floppy Disk Drives

When you are using Microsoft Backup to back up data to certain models of floppy disk drives, you may receive the following error messages:

Some models of floppy disk drives require specific timing and delays between disk operations to work properly. The timing implemented by the Windows 95 floppy disk driver is not sufficient for some of these drives.

This problem no longer occurs in Windows 98. To resolve this problem, install the current version of Windows. For information about the current version of Windows, visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows (http://www.microsoft.com/windows) .

There are two separate timing issues known to relate to this symptom:

• Some floppy disk drives require a specific minimum delay time after a Write operation, before a Step operation can occur.

• Some floppy disk drives require a specific minimum head-settling time between a Seek and subsequent Write operation.

In each of these cases, the delay required by the drive is greater than the Windows 95 floppy disk driver implements.