Warner...get rid of old grease and replace if you have it, like an early MAC Apple drive benefits from. Might help
Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net On May 23, 2017 8:13 PM, "Warner Losh via cctalk" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth fixing. Two are > TEAC FD-55FRs. One appears to not report the INDEX mark, the other works > well until around track 35 or so then fails... The third floppy is a 1.2 MB > YD-380. It won't reliably move the head... > > I've tried cleaning the heads (which rehabbed a forth drive: a TEAC > FD-55GFR) on these drives a few times. I'm thinking that it's too much > hassle and I should just trash them, at least the YD-380. I have 3 1.2MB > drives that work. The 55FRs are desirable to have working since I can put > them in a Rainbow, but even at ebay prices it isn't worth more than an hour > of my time to rehab. > > Before I do that I thought I'd see if there was something simple I can do. > > I did all my testing with the kryoflux board on a known-good disk (720k > 5.25" drive so it tests both sides at the normal density and tests all 80 > tracks w/o using the high density mode so the FRs can read it). > > Warner >
