At 13:51 -0500 on 02/08/02, Luca Rescigno wrote: >I have this SE FDHD and the floppy drive in it eats disks. It doesn't >cause permanent damage to them as a Quadra 950 can reformat them to >1.4MB format and then they work fine again. But almost every disk I put >into the SE ends up getting a disk error. I reformat it, but then I get >another error and it ejects it. I know floppies are flaky, but I don't >remember them being this flaky! Any way I can fix it? I think I remember >one person telling me that there was some device above or below the disk >that wasn't working right or something.
Sounds like one of your read/write heads might be misaligned. The simplest fix is to replace the drive, but Pina has a Track 0 alignment procedure in either Dead Mac Scrolls or Mac Repair and Upgrade Secrets if you really want to fix it. -- the pickle FAQ <http://macfaq.org/index.shtml> Software Archive <ftp://download:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//Users/thepickl/Sites/Archive/> <http://www.members.jmug.org/%7Ethepickl/archive/> _________________________________________________________________ -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
