IBM PS/2 Model 70 or compatible floppy drive wanted (Or help with current one?)

[Gary Sparkes]

It... seems to be working reliably again now.

I'd still be interested in finding a spare/compatible, even if it's a bare
drive without the card edge connector, but somehow now that i've been
prodding it and doing absolutely nothing different other than booting off
it a few times, it seems to be operating just fine under DOS 5

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 5:15 AM Gary Sparkes <mokuba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all, i'm having a fair amount of trouble with my PS/2's floppy
> drive... wanted to back up my BBS and none of the disks i put in would read
> or format!
>
> Oddly though, it WILL boot a disk that's inserted on power-on.
>
> I hear it try and hit the disk a few times while in dos repeatedly before
> failing with the R/A/F options ... and format tries to read it, then goes
> attempts to format it, and can't find sector 0 .....
>
> I'm really confused about those symptoms since it boots the only bootable
> disk I had on hand - ironically spinrite 6 (I'm aware of how useful it
> is...) - so i'm looking at replacing it ... or figuring out what's wrong
> with it that it can boot a disk just fine, but not use one while in DOS ?
>
>
> .... and by wiggling the floppy a bit I just got it to format a disk while
> in the ... drive, and now it's making the noise it did before and stalling
> occasionally.
>
> Perhaps the disk just isn't catching fully?
>
> --
> Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
> KB3HAG
>


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Gary G. Sparkes Jr.
KB3HAG