Re: faulty floppy drives

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Michael Lasham wrote:

>answered it myself.
>Seems that the double sided double density soft sectore
>disks I was trying to format leave *alot* of
>gunge on the heads.  I had to get in and clean
>them myself as the head cleaning disk could not do the job.
>
>It is odd that I can read DSDD disks that came with
>the system though...
>
>Erica and Michael Lasham wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I've just bought an apple2e which *had* a working floppy drive.
>> After trying to format some disks in it with dos3.3 it
>> now does not work.
>> I use to be able to boot of certain disks.
>> Now when I put a disk in and reset or power on all that
>> happens is the disk spins but the system does not boot.
>> I replaced the drive with another one which worked fine
>> until I tried the format again.
>> Each format by the way, gave an IO error.
>> What could be going on here?
>> Is there a way I can get my drives to work again??
>>
>> Thanks
>> Michael.

DSDD is the right media type.  It sounds like you got some bad ones.

-michael

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