Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives!

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Boot Zero" <apple@bidlink.net> wrote in message w_6dne5N_KYE3drVnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@giganews.com">news:w_6dne5N_KYE3drVnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@giganews.com...
> Hey,
>
> I have an Apple //e enhanced, which has recently been brought back into
> service.  Upon initial use, both floppy drives worked, and I was able to
> copy some disks via ADT.  After a few hours of intermittent copying,
> drive 1 (of a Duo-disk) was throwing errors.  Disks that used to boot
> stopped booting.
>
> Drive 2 in the duo still worked.
>
> I purchased a stand-alone 5 1/4 floppy, that worked fine for a while,
> then had the same problem. First it reads, then it throws errors, then
> it won't boot.
>
> Bought another Duo-disk on E-bay.  Drive 2 was working, so I removed it
> and installed it into my old Duo-disk unit, giving me 2 working drives.
>   After some hours of intermittent use, drive 1 started throwing errors.
>   Moving to drive 2, it worked fine for a while, then the same result.
>
> Before all drives died, I did a speed test using Copy2plus.  On the
> drives that were working, they showed normal speeds (198-202ms).   On
> the failing drives, the speeds are all over the place.  STarting at
> around 225, then dropping to almost zero, then back up to 300 or so.
>
> Any idea what might be causing this?  Any clues as to what was needs to
> be replaced?
>
> Any suggestions welcome
>
> -BZ

Hate to be the first one to ask, but are you connecting all of these drives
up to the same controller card every time? If so, then I'd say that it's the
controller card killing them.

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com