Fooling with floppy drives

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Thu Apr 8 14:08:14 1999

>agreed, but i'd only apply this throw away mindset to ordinary pc floppy
>drives. mac suprdrives are hard to find and expensive. i've one now in my mac
>IIx that's not reading any disks. apple drives are plentiful and cheap, but
>i'd fix them as well since none are produced anymore, obviously.

When you say not reading, is it;

Fails to spin at all, so all discs are immediately rejected?

Doesn't reliably read? My wet cleaning floppy often helps this case.

I have a few diagnostic programs, and I think it is TechTool Pro that will
do a full drive test, with a 0% to 100% rating that fairly accurately ranks
condition of drives. A few of the refurb places sell drives using this
rating, with a 90%+ drive fetching a 100% premium over just a working drive.
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 14:08:14 BST