Re: faulty floppy drives

[Erica and Michael Lasham <elasham@attglobal.net>]

answered it myself.
Seems that the double sided double density soft sectore
disks I was trying to format leave *alot* of
gunge on the heads.  I had to get in and clean
them myself as the head cleaning disk could not do the job.

It is odd that I can read DSDD disks that came with
the system though...

Erica and Michael Lasham wrote:

> Hi
> I've just bought an apple2e which *had* a working floppy drive.
> After trying to format some disks in it with dos3.3 it
> now does not work.
> I use to be able to boot of certain disks.
> Now when I put a disk in and reset or power on all that
> happens is the disk spins but the system does not boot.
> I replaced the drive with another one which worked fine
> until I tried the format again.
> Each format by the way, gave an IO error.
> What could be going on here?
> Is there a way I can get my drives to work again??
>
> Thanks
> Michael.