Help! FDHD floppy drive failing on SE/30

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From: Tim Meese
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 19:19

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I have a friend who has a new SE/30 (but unfortunately out of the
90-day warranty :-( ) with a 40MB Quantum drive and a single FDHD
floppy drive.  When he tries to do a copy from the hard drive to floppy,
the operation will be done one to three times, but after that, he gets
a "Disk Error" (sorry, I didn't ask him for the error number) and the 
floppy is not readable after that.  

He told me that the problem seems to be intermittent with the number of
disk writes until the drive fails varying.  The intermittent nature seems 
to indicate a hardware problem... I don't know for sure.

Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, is it a media or a hardware
problem?  Much thanks in advance.

Tim


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From: meese@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Tim Meese)
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Subject: Help!  FDHD floppy drive failing on SE/30
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Date: 13 Mar 90 19:19:37 GMT
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