Re: help with Unidisk 5.25"

[st3b1@jetson.uh.edu (Fretz, David)]

In article <22SEP199423154047@rosie.uh.edu>, st40q@rosie.uh.edu (Mooney, Christopher J.) writes...
> 
>I have found that if I exert the exact kind of pressure on the release door, 
>then it will get going right again, but ifI let go, it stops working. Also, 
>sometimes if I press down on the top of the drive, it will start to work, but
>of course will stop as soon as I remove the pressure.

 Yup sound like the loading arm isn't quite making contact to the collet hub.
That needs to be fixed by somebody who knows what they are doing.  Going too 
much and you end up making bigger holes in your diskettes and not too far will
not allow the boot disk too boot up as well.

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