Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive (or ANY floppy drive)

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From: David Edmondson
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 13:07

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In article <1587@diamond2.UUCP> derosa@cell.mot.COM (John DeRosa) writes:
>I got a product similar to this called trackmate.  It contained a bottle
>of "stuff" that had a felt tip to spead the liquid with.  It also
>           deleted
>The problem is that the "disk" would ALWAYS jam in the drive which
>would require disassembly of the Mac to get it out.  Has anyone
>also had this problem?  It has happened on several macs.  Would
>the 800K init help this problem?

I had this problem with a disk cleaner and found that it was
due to the label they use to hold the case together.  Scraping
the label away from the indented section next to the ramp
cutout fixed it.

dave

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From: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive (or ANY floppy drive)
Message-ID: <1782@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Mar 90 13:07:56 GMT
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