JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) (08/22/89)
I am experiencing a rather horrible problem right now... my drive - a single sided on, does not seem to have the ability to write to disks anymore, although it reads them fine... I can't even format a new disk properly.... as much as I can tell it is not a virus... I have used "clean disks" and the same problem occured.... I had this problem once before, but I can't remember how I fixed it, I just messed around with placement of equipment, pushed chips down and such, and within a day of fooling around like that - it worked again.... but I can't get it to this time... does anyone have any ideas or was faced with a similiar problem and knows a fix? ------- * J.J. Lehett Bitnet address: JJL101@PSUVM * * a.k.a. Scux * * * * *
clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) (08/23/89)
In article <89233.223248JJL101@PSUVM> JJL101@PSUVM.BITNET (J.J. Lehett) writes: > > I am experiencing a rather horrible problem right now... my drive - >a single sided on, does not seem to have the ability to write to disks >anymore, although it reads them fine... I can't even format a new disk >properly.... as much as I can tell it is not a virus... I have used >"clean disks" and the same problem occured.... I had this problem once >before, but I can't remember how I fixed it, I just messed around with >placement of equipment, pushed chips down and such, and within a day of >fooling around like that - it worked again.... but I can't get it to this >time... does anyone have any ideas or was faced with a similiar problem >and knows a fix? >------- Sounds as if your drive cable has a broken wire in it. If your drive is external, try borrowing a cable that you KNOW works, and try the drive. If the drive was going bad, I would imagine you would have equal problems trying to read the disk too. You could also check the continuity of the wire (pin 11) and see if it does indeed have a break in it. Move the cable around as you do this. If you get varying readings, then it is broken and you would probably want a new cable. Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology | What I like : BITNET: %clf3678@RITVAX GEnie: C.FREEMESSER | 1) My Atari ST USENET: Just reply and hope it gets through | 2) My '77 Mercury Do unto others........then run. | 3) Coke Classic