More SE Floppy Problems

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From: Hank Strub
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1987 17:42

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I too have experienced misc. destroyed floppy directories on my
within-warranty dual-floppy SE, although it seems to happen only for
the upper drive.  I had guessed that the problem was due to the drive
being slightly misaligned with the slot, a problem I had remembered
hearing about on Pluses.  I was resolved to get my machine 100% right.

After a week (and the bookstore PROMISED only 2-3 days), I've been
told that both drives passed all diagnostics, and that there is no
way to tell that a drive is slightly misaligned unless it fails
the diagnostics.

Has anyone actually found the source of this very intermittent
problem?  Is there a way to check floppy drive alignment with
the drive's slot?

				Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

				Hank Strub
				UCSD, Institute for Cognitive Science

strub@nprdc.arpa OR strub%sdics@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu OR
. . .!sdcsvax!sdics!strub

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From: strub@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Hank Strub)
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Subject: More SE Floppy Problems
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 12:42:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 12:42:57 1987
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