"Gary F. Daught" wrote: > > Greetings. I have a peculiar situation with my recently acquired PB180. > Since it didn't come with any floppies I haven't been able to test the > floppy drive. So I thought to format some IBM floppies to Mac-readable. > But I haven't been able to. Repeated attempts to initialize floppies > have failed. Does this indicate a problem with the drive itself? It > appears to be able to read the disk, because when I insert a floppy, > the dialog comes up indicating the disk is not Mac readable, and asks > if I would like to initialize? When I click OK it appears to go through > the process of initializing and verifying, but then the dialog shows > the bar with the amount out of 1440 KB readable. The bar is empty, and > then the dialog changes to "initialization has failed!" Ordinarily I > would have suspected a faulty diskette. But this process failed on four > separate disks. > > Gary
Hello Gary: I had the same problem with my first PB 540. After several months of not using it, the problem seems to have cleared up. It could be that the floppy drive has a bad connection through the cable. You might try disassembling it and very carefully reconnecting it to the cable. You can also try a floppy drive cleaning system which uses a diskette to clean the heads. They can be found at electronics stores. Sincerely yours, Grizzlygiant -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> 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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
