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

[Gary Sparkes]

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