souka@uh.msc.umn.edu (Omar Souka) (12/31/90)
My FDHD on my SE/30 recently began rejecting all 800K disks as unreadable and refuses to format them also. It does read and format 400K disks. Any suggestions -- is it broken or maybe just dirty (if it is, how do I clean it?) Thanks Omar Souka E/Mail: souka@msc.edu Minnesota Supercomputer Center AT&T: 612 625 7890 Minneapolis, MN FAX: 612 624 6550
rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman) (01/01/91)
In <3221@uc.msc.umn.edu> souka@uh.msc.umn.edu (Omar Souka) writes: >My FDHD on my SE/30 recently began rejecting all 800K disks as >unreadable and refuses to format them also. It does read and format >400K disks. Any suggestions -- is it broken or maybe just dirty (if it >is, how do I clean it?) >Thanks There are many companies that produces drive cleaning kits. Unfortunatly I suspect that what has happened is the upper head of your drive has either been knocked out of position by a disk that got stuck (a very common occurance) or it is in fact dirty (I seriously doubt) I will also tell you that if the upper head has gone bad/whatever, the Authorized Apple Dealers will have one sole option : REPLACEMENT OF THE ENTIRE DRIVE. It is impossible for an authorized dealer to buy a "head assembly" for those drives from Apple.. -- Roby -- Roby Sherman | Ye olde Nets : rsherman@mthvax.cs.edu P.O. Box 63-04 +----------------------------------------------------------- Miami, Fl. 33163 | Smart : When you only believe half of what you hear. | Brilliant : When you know which half to believe! <grin>