Re: How to adjust the speed of floppy drives?

["Tom Zuchowski" <Eamoncd@bellsouth.net>]

"Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:RpdQb.3643$U%5.20468@attbi_s03...
> I have a couple of "hacked" disk ][ style drives that are no longer
working.
> I'm not exactly sure of what the problem is but I think that the speed
> adjustments are off. The former owner moved the adjustment pots to the
> front of the drive because (according to him) the drives needed to be
> adjusted frequently and he was tired of having to take the drives out to
> adjust them. The drives also have Write Protect toggle switches and the
> red/green lights on the front too (also added by the former owner.) I
don't
> want to toss the drives out if I can repair them but I'm not sure how best
> to do it.

Apart from accessing copy-protected disks, another possibility for the need
for convenient adjustment might be that the drive motors are wearing out.
This has happened to me. I had a drive that simply would not stay adjusted.
It finally got bad enough that I couldn't even adjust it any more while the
speed program was running, as it hunted all over the place. I chanced upon
an exact replacement for the motor in a surplus electronics catalog and
bought a couple. After I replaced the drive motor, the drive was again
rock-solid.

Good luck.

Tom Zuchowski