Re: My Tulin Floptical disk drive went bad

[webmaster@cardshow.com (Michael Guitton)]

In article <34FAE687.1DFA@unisys.com>, MA <Marlin.Allred@unisys.com> wrote:

> If I insert a Floptical disk into the disk drive in either Finder or
> a text based application, the disk does not show up in the device
> list. However, if a insert a normal high density diskette into the
> same drive, there is no problems with reading the files on the disk.
> This disk drive is connected to a RamFAST controller card and used
> to recognize the floptical diskette but no more.
>
Did you try the RamFAST SCSI utility? I've got this kind of problem with
800K disks mistakenly inserted in the floptical drive (the usual Finder
"Eject" dialog is not displayed). Formatting the disk to 720K solves the
problem. Maybe the drive sensor is damaged. Perhaps it is the disk itself
(unless you tried many disks and none of them was mounted). Forget the "f"
symbol stuff I read in a related post. Compare both HD and floptical disks:
the holes are positioned differently.

> Has anyone experience the same problem or know how to correct the
> problem since the company has gone out of business?
> 
> Marlin
Drop by http://users.ids.net/~kerwood/juiced.gs/issues.html and search for
Tulin.

Hope this helps!

Michael