Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives! - Thanks for the help.

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Boot Zero wrote:
> Just wanted to follow-up in case others have similar problems. Received 
> a cleaning kit today, and ran it for 30 seconds on both read and write 
> heads.

Just for the record, there is only one read-write gap on the head.  ;-)

There's a separate erase gap on the same head, but that's another issue.

> The drives now function normally.  Old disks = dirty heads.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Glad you got them fixed!

> Patrick Schaefer wrote:
>
> > Boot Zero schrieb:
> >
> > > Before all drives died, I did a speed test using Copy2plus.  On the 
> > > drives that were working, they showed normal speeds (198-202ms).   On 
> > > the failing drives, the speeds are all over the place.  STarting at 
> > > around 225, then dropping to almost zero, then back up to 300 or so.
> >
> >
> > Check your 12V supply. Not only the voltage, the signal shape (noise, 
> > spikes etc), too.
> >
> > Or get a spare power supply for your IIe to swap in.

-michael

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