Re: How do you know 3.5" disk drive works?

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Oh this is what I see. I thought the one we should see is "Cannot find
ProDOS" or something. At least it should try... and whine, and make
some noises, etc, then spit it up.

Anyway, based on what you say, then the drive is probably dirty. I am
not sure whether I can still find those drive cleaner though, have to
hunt around.

On 3月22日, 上午6时54分, "Polymorph" <polymo...@a2central.com.remove-v8-
this> wrote:

> The expected behaviour for when you try and boot from a bad disk is for
> it to be spit out and for you to be presented with the "Check startup
> device!" screen (the one with the apple flying from side to side).
>
> If you are not seeing this behaviour, then maybe there is a problem with
> the drive. Its strange that your system reboots after spitting out the
> disk. Maybe it starts to load the OS and hits a problem and then
> reboots?? If that is the case, maybe the drive just needs its heads cleaned.
>
> I'd probably try the ADTPro solution that Dean mentioned first, and if
> that fails try cleaning the drives heads. Dirty heads is probably the
> most common problem with old floppy drives. Also check that your disks
> aren't really dirty/dusty - it could be that you are actually making the
> drives heads dirty by using dirty disks.