Re: 3.5 Drive repairs

[buggie@ben07.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

I wrote a magazine article on SWAPPING a good Sony mechanism into the plat
3.5 drive case.


Just send me your bad drive plus $10 + $5 shipping, and I will replace the
innards with agood mechanism!


Steve Buggie




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Rubywand (rubywand@swbell.net) wrote:
: Dan Krass writes ...
: > 
: > http://www.apple2.org/
: > 
: > In article <01bded52$f35cfa60$LocalHost@pdsrome>, Jim Thompson wrote:
: > >Can anyone suggest a good url or faq that details how to repair an Apple
: > >M0106 3.5 drive?


:      The A9M0106 is the standard 800k Apple 3.5" drive as used with the
: IIgs and IIc+. There is some repair information in the CSA2FDISK.TXT
: FAQs file at ... 

: http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/
: ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
:   
: ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/
: http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/


:      Mainly, the information relates to cleaning and swapping in drive
: mechanisms (e.g. from a Mac). There is also some info on getting around
: a GS/OS glitch which occasionally causes a 3.5" drive to not be
: recognized.

:      So far, I have not come upon any details for doing head replacement
: or alignment on the 3.5" Apple drives. (One reason may be that new Sony
: R/W heads are expensive and a hassle to find.)  The usual fix for a
: drive with bad or dislodged heads is find a replacement drive or swap in
: a known good mechanism.

:   

: Rubywand