donr@shark.UUCP (10/02/86)
*** brrra-a-a-ck +- click click *** A friend of mine and I have Apple ][+s. He complained that his drives would not read some of his disks. He brought his drives and controller card over and we experimented by mixing and matching cards and drives determining it was his drives, not his card. $200 later, with a swapped out drive, and a bit of tweaking on the other, he has no problems. He did find out, some way, that the disks he was unable to read were Pascal format (he says.....) Anyway, much to my horror and suprise, I now have the same symptoms. Neither drive will boot Pascal. DOS 3.3 works fine. With a pascal disk, the drive seems to read a little of the disk, keeps spinning until reset is hit and leaves a screenful of inverse @. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? $200 is a bit hard to come by right now and I really need the system, so any information you could give me (e-mail) would be appreciated.
polish@lexington.columbia.edu (Nathaniel Polish) (10/03/86)
There are several possible simple cures. There is the drive speed which you can tweek. Some drives take a while to settle down. The other more interesting problem is from magnetic fields in the area of the drive. I find that many drives are position sensative with respect to the monitor. Try running a loop and more the drive till you get no errors. Nat polish
c55-gc@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Augie Kuo) (10/04/86)
I saw this ad in a computer magazine for this company in Florida that would repair Apple drives for $30 and IBM for $25...If you need to know the address etc. mail me and I will look it up for you. Augie Kuo - c55-gc@buddy.berkeley.edu