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In article <HAIRSTON.90Mar6172431@henry.ece.cmu.edu>, hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) writes:
> [perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez) writes:]
> [P]3 months ago, I purchased an SE/30 with an FDHD drive (reads High Density
> [P]disks-those with the HD letters near the shutter).  Since then, I've 
> [P]heard MANY complaints about the drive.  Most common is having disks 
> [P]fail and never format again. 
> 
> [magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes:]
> [L]I bought an SE/30 in Jan. of 1989 and started having problems with the FDHD
> [L]and Sony disks.  After having 2 HD and 4 DD disks fail, I went out and
> [L]bought a head cleaning disk at my local EggHead computer store.  I now
> [L]clean my drive every few months and haven't had a single DD failure since. 
> [L](your milage may vary ;-)
> 
> i have a mac ii and the original 800k drives starting getting weird about
> a year ago. in sep. '89 i upgraded to 1.4M drives and at that time i was
> told that my 800k drives were covered with dust. i was also given a friendly
> warning that the 1.4M drives would be more sensitive to dust. so i put
> shutters on the drive slots and dust screens on the air intake slots to
> prevent dust buildup. 6 months later and over 100 1.4M floppies used, read
> a/o formatted since, i've had _no_ problems (3M disks mainly). by the way,
> the computer stays on all the time so the fan is constantly sucking in air.
> perhaps preventative maintainence is in order for mac ii owners.
> 
>   -dave-  
> hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu

            maybe you could tell us the way you accomplished the making

of the dust doors and where you put the screen?

		Forgive my ignorance.

				-Rob