Re: Apple 3.5 Drive - Needs Cleaning?

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

State your postal address, and I will mail you my magazine article:
HACKING PLATINUM: MAC TO APPLE II"   regarding transferring the innards
from a Mac 800K drive to your drive casing.

Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu
200 College Rd.
Gallup NM 87301






Jon H. (rigby@ptd.net) wrote:

: I picked up an "Apple 3.5 Drive" for a friend that has a GS.  After hooking
: the drive to the first 3.5 drive (he had 1 3.5 drive and has 1 5.25 drive),
: we turned the computer on.  We put a disk in the drive, and GS/OS (5.0)
: gave some sort of disk is unreadable message.  we ejected the disk and put
: it back in the same drive again and it came up OK.  

: I also took the drive and tried it on a Mac.  I got the same problem - the
: drive could read disks sometimes, and sometimes we would have to eject a
: disk and put it back in.

: Do you think this drive is broken?  Or does it need to be cleaned?  How
: would I clean it?

: Thank you,
: Jon

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