Re: Malfunctioning 5.25" drive: please assist

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

crownmi@zot.io.org (Myles Fudge) wrote:

>The 5.25" clone drive receives power and spins, however it does not
>read the disk.  My Apple reports an I/O ERROR when I attempt to
>CATALOG a freshly formatted 5.25" disk with the bad drive.  The disk, 
>however, works just fine in my Disk ][.  I have found that once I've 
>attempted to catalog a good disk in the malfunctioning drive the disk no 
>longer works in the Disk ][ drive.  It seems that the malfunctioning 
>drive is damaging the disk.

Have you tried other brands of disks?  One if my Disk ][s shows
similar symptoms when I use Memorex disks in it...A temporary fix (at
least for me) is to hold the drive door open (a little).  This seems
to "loosen stuff up enough"?

>P.S.  Whoops -- my apologies for not limiting the length of my text to 70 
>      characters, or so, in advance.

Doesn't bother me a shred.  Is it certain programs that go boink when
these parameters are ignored?
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