17 Jul
2008
17 Jul
'08
1:57 p.m.
yeah, i cleaned the heads, no help. im thinking the arm that holds the upper
head is bent, and i took the drive out and tried booting while watching, the
arm stays in one place (worm drive doesnt move at all) and it spits the disk
out.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
see, its not a matter of not going in or coming out, it does that fine,
but
when i put the floppy in, it barely reads, and a
second later spits it
right
Have you tried cleaning the heads with a cotton bud dipped in propan-2-ol?
[It may sound obvious, but I once spent an afternoon chasing up and down
the analogue board ina a Commodore 8250LP, only to find the reason for
the low-amplitude read signal was dirty heads...]
-tony