Re: How to adjust the speed of floppy drives?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

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>Only thing
>is I have a //c 5.25 drive that has a problem
>finding
>proper speed. It jumps from 0-350 MS and back and
>everywhere in between. Any idea what it needs? I
>have
>not tried the mechanism with another analog card.
>That's next.

That might be a good thing to try.

I doubt that the speed is actually varying that much (which
should be easily audible).  More likely, it is simply reading
erratically, confusing the drive speed adjustment program.

Could be as simple as running a head cleaning disk or it
could be the analog card...

-michael

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