Re: Floppy drive revival

[Jim Foster]

One phenomenon I have seen is where the read/write head seems to get 
slightly out of alignment. This results in a drive which will format, 
read, and write its own diskettes but often rejects diskettes that have 
been formatted and used on other Macs as unreadable. I don't think 
there is any practical way to correct this problem at home.

As for drives which seem to have a hard time ejecting diskettes, they 
sometimes come around by a thorough blowing out of dust but by and 
large my practice when faced with a diskette drive that is not working 
properly has been to replace it with a unit I picked up on eBay. I have 
cultivated at least one relationship with an eBay vendor I trust and I 
find it more practical to just fork over a few bucks knowing he will 
stand behind his stuff than to spend hours trying to repair my own 
units.

Good luck!!
Jim Foster
On 31-May-04, at 12:17 PM, Michael Hackett wrote:
Does anyone know what makes floppy drives go bad? (Sounds like a
Dateline story.)
Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
-- Michael
P.S. If anyone is interested in any of these systems or drives, drop me
a line. I'm just cleaning them up and testing them before putting them
on the swap list.
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