likely old caps in the drive or controller needing replacement On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 6:23 PM Randall Kindig <randall.kin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Funny you should ask. At Tandy Assembly (http://www.tandyassembly.com) > last year I found the same issue with my single-drive DVI. I can boot from > a disk fine, but cannot format. It just crunches forever when trying to > format, then eventually fails. I didn’t try writing to a disk. A second > DVI I had (but sold at the show) worked fine. > > I’d love to know how to deal with that too. > > Randy > > On Mar 15, 2019, at 9:09 PM, George Rimakis <grima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry to bombard the list with DVI related posts, but I am having an issue. > > So, I have two DVI’s one with two drives, one with one. > > At first I used the DVI with one drive, was able to format the boot disk, > and make a copy. After that I am not able to format any additional disks. I > just get a Format Failed error. > > I tried the second DVI, and only one of the two drives can format the > disks. They all can read and write to disks that are formatted however. > > I took them apart and cleaned the heads with isopropyl, but nothing has > changed. > > Does any have experience with 180k drives like this being unable to > format, but otherwise appearing fine? > > ~George > > >
