Pc-Check Windows Floppy Drive Read Write Test Failure Information

Group Number 330X

Device Floppy Drives

This is a test group for removable media floppy drives. Floppy drives read from, and write to, a removable 'floppy disk' which is a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular carrier. Though largely obsolete they are still used in legacy and specialist equipment."

NOTE: Floppy disks can degrade in performance after multiple uses: change the media regularly.

NOTE: To acquire device information on floppy drive media, the floppy disk must be present in the drive on initialisation.

NOTE: USB Floppy drives are not supported on Windows Vista® and above and should not be used.

Test Number 303

Read Write

The Read Write Test seeks linearly and sequentially between start and stop points. At each seek position, it reads from the disk and then writes what was read back to the disk. Each Read Write test iteration is one seek. Each iteration, the seek position increases by one sector increment, a read is done from a number of sectors, and a write is done back to the same set of sectors. The Read Write test is always done with the seek position increasing each iteration.

Estimated Test Time 1.4 to 2.2 minutes (1.44MB floppy); 31.4 minutes (120MB floppy)

PARAM1: Duration

The duration of the test.

PARAM2: Coverage

The coverage of the test.

ERRORCODES & TROUBLESHOOTING

The initialisation failed for the test. CODE="0x00/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING1: An error has occurred with the floppy disk. This could be because of faulty media or a faulty device.

Floppy disk seek failure. CODE="0x01/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING1: An error has occurred with the floppy disk. This could be because of faulty media or a faulty device.

Floppy disk media open failure. CODE="0x02/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING1: An error has occurred with the floppy disk. This could be because of faulty media or a faulty device.

There is no media in the drive. CODE="0x03/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING0: An error has occurred with the floppy disk media. Check to ensure the correct media is inserted when prompted.

Media eject failure. CODE="0x04/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING0: An error has occurred with the floppy disk media. Check to ensure the correct media is inserted when prompted.

Incorrect media was detected. CODE="0x05/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING0: An error has occurred with the floppy disk media. Check to ensure the correct media is inserted when prompted.

The request timed out. CODE="0x06/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING0: An error has occurred with the floppy disk media. Check to ensure the correct media is inserted when prompted.

No media change detected. CODE="0x07/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING0: An error has occurred with the floppy disk media. Check to ensure the correct media is inserted when prompted.

The data write failed. CODE="0x08/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING1: An error has occurred with the floppy disk. This could be because of faulty media or a faulty device.

The data read failed. CODE="0x09/3FF"

TROUBLESHOOTING1: An error has occurred with the floppy disk. This could be because of faulty media or a faulty device.