23 Aug
1997
23 Aug
'97
6:36 a.m.
Hi!
If DOS complains disk is not there or unreadable, there are tanished
switches.
Have someone measure two switches for decent low resistance if it's
not clean break/make contacts resistances, it is a bit pain of taking
it apart and clean those tanish off the silver plated copper plates.
Be careful of fine sprung spings and little leaf wiget used to short
these two contacts.
That is all to it.
Saved one like that in Toshiba drives of all kinds, Fixed 4 of them
for pc standard and one for T5200/100.
Those citizen/Toshiba drives are very rugged for heavy use. Those
new Panasonic/Teac/cheapo ones most of time are not up to this kind
of much use as I seen so far!
Jason D.
I know that this really doesn't belong here, but
in some circles, the old
Toshiba laptop that I have may be considered a classic!
Anyway, I'm looking for help finding an internal floppy drive for my Toshiba
3100/20 laptop. It's a portable, non-battery Red plasma laptop, with a
messed-up 720k floppy drive. Does anyone know where I can get one of these.
Toshiba want's over $150 for one, and I won't pay that for a crappy 720k drive
on a free machine.
Any leads appreciated!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
rcini(a)msn.com