Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives!

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article 
<279ef248-2995-442f-840f-5691a4324ff1@w34g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
 David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks!

John
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