Broken //c drive advice

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk>]

Ok, looks like I've managed to create a boot disk for my newly acquired //c,
thanks to the FAQ and the newsgroup for pointing out that I'd misread it.

Sadly the //c seems to have a duff built-in drive and the version of DOS in
DOS33DMP seems to be esDosII which starts booting via a PR#7 but then starts
trying to boot from the built-in drive. (Does "real" DOS 3.3 work via this
route?)

Looks like I'll have to take the main system apart and examine the drive, it
steps back to track 0 but then fails. Anyone got any clues (or better yet a
website)? One idea I may try is to take apart both drives and swap the
mechanisms but this feels a little extreme at the moment, I'd like to
confirm the second drive works first.

The //c first displays "Check Disk Drive" on powerup is this normal for a
//c, or does it indicate some other problem?

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