Re: Two drives failing.....

[sirghoul@optonline.net]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:38:50 -0700 (PDT), Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Jun 16, 9:07�pm, sirgh...@optonline.net wrote:
>> Had something a bit unusual happen last night. Want to make sure I didn't overlook anything.....
>>
>> I have a GS with 4 drives on the smartport. two 3.5", two 5.25".
>>
>> Last night, BOTH 5.25" drives seem to have failed at the same time. Neither will read, although they spin up, and
>> recalibrate fine.
>>
>> Tried connecting them in a different order, no go.
>>
>> Tried connecting each of them as the ONLY drive to the smart port. No go.
>>
>> Don't have a drive controller card to hook them to, to test the possibility of the smart port failing.
>>
>
>I'd be checking that the disk you are testing with isn't dirty. You
>may have just dirtied the heads on both drives? I have a scanned doc
>on my web site (http://apple2.sytes.net) that outlines the cleaning
>procedure if you want to give that a try. Its pretty common for the
>drives heads to become dirty, especially when attempting to read old
>dusty floppies.

Well, a second run-thru with the cleaning disk got the second drive back into operation.

Wish all my problems were this easily solved.

Thanks again all for your input.

John.


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