Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives!

[David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>]

On Jun 6, 6:34 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> I lugged a DuoDisk to a trade show some years ago. Its first (left)
> drive ate disks by seeking and overwriting track zero. I assumed it was
> the drive, but it could have been carelessly connected.  Is there some
> component in the DuoDisk that could turn a drive into a killer? :-)

Yes.

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FDRIVE.html#006

Also, if you were using some early versions of ProDOS 8 there was a
Track 0 eating bug.
You should use v1.9 on 64K systems an 2.0.3 on 128K systems.