Re: Disk ][ Drives not working

["Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net>]

Alistair,

You can second guess the problems all you want, you have 2 bad drives, maybe a controller card too. If you want an image drive and
controller card with a tested diskette on that disk drive, let me know, I'll help out for the cost of shipping.  Drives go, I've
seen bad controller cards, but with all the images you've tried and on 2 different controllers, you disk drives are shot, simple as
that. I'm in the US but I'll help a fellow II user for shipping cost. Email me and I can tell you what shipping will be.

Cheers.

Vince

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"Alistair J Ross" <mailat@alirossdotco.uk> wrote in message pan.2004.06.30.23.17.16.824452@alirossdotco.uk">news:pan.2004.06.30.23.17.16.824452@alirossdotco.uk...
> Hello again,
>
>     Thank you to all of you lovely people who offered to send me a disk with
>     DOS 3.3 in my recent problem of chicken-and-egg: getting DOS to my Apple
>     ][ Europlus.
>
>     Well. I have now recieved said copies of software (thank you very *VERY*
>     much), so I went about booting the disks (I have two copies of the DOS
>     master disk, just in case). Unfortunately, the ][ just sits there on
>     startup with APPLE ][ on screen. Drive 1 moves the head back to the rear of
>     the drive (if not already there) and it tries to move it's self back even
>     further (is this called calibrating?!) - in doing so, the drive gives out a
>     (what I would call) slightly irregular thud, thud, thud sound. About 10 or
>     so of these thuds and the drive head ceases to move against it's stopper.
>     The drive motor continues to run however, until I hit RESET.
>
>     Both of my drives perform the same issue when they are set to be Drive 1. I
>     have 2 Drive ][ controller cards which both do the same thing. I have
>     stripped the drive of it's casing to see exactly what is happening but
>     everything (with exception of the heads simply moving back to the rear of
>     the drive and hitting against the stopper repeatedly) is normal. There are
>     no immediate signs of wear and I have ran a non-abrasive head cleaner
>     through the drive just in case.
>
>     If I manually push the heads to the front of the drive, then the drive
>     first of all pushes the heads to the back again, before resuming the normal
>     thudding, so it seems to know that its got to go back to the bottom to seek
>     for something.
>
>     Anyone any ideas as to why this is happening? Should I shell out the 20 or
>     so pounds on Ebay to buy a couple of new drives? I don't really think there
>     is that much wrong with these drives. Do you?
>
> As always, many thanks in advance.
>
>     Alistair Ross
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