Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive

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From: David Stoms
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 02:31

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After about a year my drives started rejecting most disks on an
irregular basis. I finally relented and opened my Mac II up and examined
the drives carefully. The mechanism that recieved the disk was sticking
and the drive head was dust. Actually the whole thing was dusty. I don't
recommend this, but I attacked it with damp q-tips. You have to be very
careful that the q-tips don't fall apart. So after the drives looked
clean I played with the insertion mechanism for a while. It kept not
seating the disk all the way but after a few hours of working it
something happened and it started seating disks perfectly. The change
was rather surprising because it was so sudden.
My drives have been work well ever since. Maybe I'll have to clean them
again soon though.

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From: stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms)
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Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive
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