Re: Repairing Disk ][ Drives

[wc8754@writer.yorku.ca (John Slonimsky)]

Well, first of all thanks to those of you who replied.  I gave the drive
a good cleaning, and it worked a bit better, but I still had some problems.
Then I said to myself ("Self," I said.) I said "Hey, I remember that my Copy
][
+ program has a verify speed option.  Hmm...maybe that would tell me someting."
So I checked.  The drives are supposed to run between 198 and 202 ms.  The good
drive was running at 200.8 ms and the bad one. . .206.4!!!!!
Carefully following the instructions in the Copy ][+ Manual I adjusted the
speed to 200.4 or something (couldn't get it exact - very sensitive). Now, it
seems that everything is working just fine.  Ahh... what a relief.  Now I can
finally download the ProDOS 2.0.3 from ftp.apple.com from my PC to my //e 
where it can be useful.

Thanks again for keeping one fellas Apple ][ alive!

Jeff Markus
c/o wc8754@carr.yorku.ca or markus@husky.uucp