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Transdrive 5.25" trouble
The single 5.25" Transdrive on my PCTransporter is giving me trouble - it no longer
reads or writes. Whenever I access the drive, the red light comes on and the floppy spins,
but the read/write head won't move off of its stop. The R/W head motor appears to be
OK because it pulls the head back to the stop if I move the head over and then access the
drive. The PCTransporter appears to be OK because it boots up from the partition on my
hard drive. Is there any way of determining whether the problem is in the Transdrive or
the PCTransporter? And if it's the PCTransporter, is there any solution short of
replacement?
For what its worth, my system is:
GS ROM 1
4 MB GS-RAM board
PCTransporter
20 MB Vulcan
2 Disk ][ drives on a Disk][ controller
2 Apple 3.5" drives off of the Smartport
Thanks in advance.
Chuck Meins, Jr.
meins@ll.mit.edu