jsd@UMass.BITNET (Jonathan S. Drukman) (06/24/88)
You may or may not recall that I was having problems with frequent and inexplicable data errors on my SF 314 floppy. I received many letters, and thanks to all who wrote. The mail I received indicated that basically _anything_ could be the problem - the disk controller chip, the head alignment, dirty heads, bad disks... And the answer is - I have absolutely no idea what. The drive magically fixed itself the very day I planned to take it into a store for head alignment. This was over a week ago and it hasn't even hiccuped since. All the disks that were "unformattable" and "completely damaged" are now perfect. I have thrown out most of the really troublesome ones. My advice to those with this problem is the following: pick the drive up, shout in a loud voice: "I'm going to take my drive to the store now for alignment. Oops, looks like I won't make it in time." and slam it back down on the desk with a gentle yet firm touch. It worked for me. ----------- Jon Drukman University`of Massachusetts BITNET: jsd@umass ARPANET:"Naked man calm own, I'll give you some strawberry cake." - sugarcubes
jsd@UMass.BITNET (Jonathan S. Drukman) (06/24/88)
You may or may not recall that I was having problems with frequent and inexplicable data errors on my SF 314 floppy. I received many letters, and thanks to all who wrote. The mail I received indicated that basically _anything_ could be the problem - the disk controller chip, the head alignment, dirty heads, bad disks... And the answer is - I have absolutely no idea what. The drive magically fixed itself the very day I planned to take it into a store for head alignment. This was over a week ago and it hasn't even hiccuped since. All the disks that were "unformattable" and "completely damaged" are now perfect. I have thrown out most of the really troublesome ones. My advice to those with this problem is the following: pick the drive up, shout in a loud voice: "I'm going to take my drive to the store now for alignment. Oops, looks like I won't make it in time." and slam it back down on the desk with a gentle yet firm touch. It worked for me. ----------- Jon Drukman University of Massachusetts BITNET: jsd@umass ARPANET: jsd%umass.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu "Naked man calm down, I'll give you some strawberry cake." - sugarcubes
bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett) (06/26/88)
jsd@UMass.BITNET (Jonathan S. Drukman) writes: >shout in a loud voice: "I'm going to take my drive to the store now for >alignment. Oops, looks like I won't make it in time." and slam it back >down on the desk with a gentle yet firm touch. It worked for me. Probably something wasn't making a good connection and jaring the drive or flexing the cable fixed it. I plugged an external drive in once and it was completely inop. I disconnected the cable and reconnected it and it has worked faithfully for over 1.5 years. I never saw what might have caused this. It's a tough decision to take something apart that is brand new to make sure something isn't just loose that you can fix real easily. Bill UUCP: {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax rutgers!marque}!gryphon!pnet02!bilbo INET: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com * Sometimes The Dragon Wins! * Still looking for the best Amiga BBS software to resurrect Bilbo's Hideaway on - but not holding breath!