Robert Rolf wrote:

> "Forgot to copy". EXACTLY the problem. Amazing how much valuable history is
> found in unexpected places when homes are emptied of their contents during a move.

indeed you're right ;-)
I did copy some 99.9% of my things, I try to do my homework year after 
year...

> Do you have a blank floppy you could check it with? Run the format command and
> make sure that it's actually stepping the drive across the media.
> If the format verifies (/V option?) it's probably an alignment issue.

Thank you Robert, I'll do some tests maybe tomorrow: the reader has been 
on my desk for 1 month now, after inital testing...

I actually was more oriented to the BIOS problem, but I'll take a closer 
look...

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Ciao, Dario
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