Re: DuoDisk - Three Questions

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Laine Houghton wrote:
> "Luke Forat" <iceman@nospam.digidude.homeip.net> wrote in message 
> news:_z8zf.49677$eD5.818771@twister2.libero.it...
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> >   regarding your disk drive
>
>
> Luke,
> Quick question. My Duo has been flakey for years. I get intermittent write 
> protects on unprotected disks. Works one day maybe not the next.
> I took a quick look in there sometime back and it looked like opto switches.
> I don't use the drive very often but if I need to do something quick I can 
> count on it to be cantankerous .
> Any experience with this or confirmation on the switches?

In the case of photosensors, two causes of intermittent behavior
(assuming good connections) are:  1) physical misalignment
(not very likely), and 2) dirt in either the LED hole or the
phototransistor hole (more likely).

-michael

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