Just an update - took it apart, and found two caps on the bottom board that spilled their guts and corroded a good area. Surprised it works at all! I'll be attempting to fix it, but did get an "approved" Panasonic drive from eBay just in case.
Chris On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Jonathan Yuen <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you have a demagnitizer thing that really erases everything on a > diskette? I remember having to use them sometimes if the 'format' program > tries to use what is already on the disk..... I have one floating around > here that I made from an old transformer, but I know there used to be these > devices just for that purpose. > > Jonathan > > [email protected] > ________________________________________ > Från: M100 [[email protected]] för Chris Kmiec [ > [email protected]] > Skickat: den 17 mars 2018 15:33 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI > > Trying to make a copy of my system disk. I've tried formatting 6 different > disks, all different manufacturers, all double density. It starts the > process, starts flashing Formatting!, then after about a minute or so, it > says FORMAT FAILED... > > The system disk works fine, it loads programs, etc. Any clue what to check > for? >
