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Article #10256Floppy disk drive diagnostics suggestions?
From: Michael Thomas Niehaus
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 04:15
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 04:15
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Here's a question for you. One of the computer labs here at Ball State
appears to be having a problem with one of their FDHD SuperDrives. People
formatting their normal 800K disks in these drives are having problems
using these disks in other labs (and in the same lab -- sometimes).
Unfortunately, the people running the lab do not know which machine is
doing this.
Now, there are 20 Mac IIcx machines in this lab, all of them with external
FDHD drives. So that makes 40 FDHD drives -- it could be any one of them.
Any idea how to easily figure out which one? They don't sound too keen
on pumping disks in and out of these drives.
Most seem to work fine (through some very simple testing), so they are led
to believe that one of the drives is out of alignment.
Any suggestions?
-Michael
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