jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) (04/30/91)
I know that this has been gone over before, but I am having GREAT difficulties with the FDHD drive in my SE/30. The machine is just about three years old. For the first year or so, I had no troubles with the floppy drive. Since then it has gotten steadily worse it seems. It rejects a very large percentage of disks with the "This is not a Macintosh disk, do you wish to initialize it?" dialog. These disks are often disks that have been used successfully in the IIcx down the hall, or SE/30's or IIx's around campus. What is more frustrating yet is that it will often reject disks that worked in MY drive recently and had been unused since then. In almost all cases, these disks not only work in other Macs, but also show no error when checked with SUM II. This problem exists for 800K and 1.4Mb floppies, as well. This winter I had the local Computerland (the only Mac dealer in town) check the drive. They said it was fine, except for a little dust, which they cleaned out. I also tried a cleaning disk this spring, which got two floppies to format that had not previously, but this is a very small percentage of those tried. Does anyone have any clue what this might be. I losing time, patience, data, and disk usability to this problem, but will have difficulty affording a new drive if that is what's necessary. Thank in advance for any and all help. Jess Holle