rapickering@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Wolverine @ miavx1) (03/07/90)
In article <HAIRSTON.90Mar6172431@henry.ece.cmu.edu>, hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) writes: > [perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez) writes:] > [P]3 months ago, I purchased an SE/30 with an FDHD drive (reads High Density > [P]disks-those with the HD letters near the shutter). Since then, I've > [P]heard MANY complaints about the drive. Most common is having disks > [P]fail and never format again. > > [magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes:] > [L]I bought an SE/30 in Jan. of 1989 and started having problems with the FDHD > [L]and Sony disks. After having 2 HD and 4 DD disks fail, I went out and > [L]bought a head cleaning disk at my local EggHead computer store. I now > [L]clean my drive every few months and haven't had a single DD failure since. > [L](your milage may vary ;-) > > i have a mac ii and the original 800k drives starting getting weird about > a year ago. in sep. '89 i upgraded to 1.4M drives and at that time i was > told that my 800k drives were covered with dust. i was also given a friendly > warning that the 1.4M drives would be more sensitive to dust. so i put > shutters on the drive slots and dust screens on the air intake slots to > prevent dust buildup. 6 months later and over 100 1.4M floppies used, read > a/o formatted since, i've had _no_ problems (3M disks mainly). by the way, > the computer stays on all the time so the fan is constantly sucking in air. > perhaps preventative maintainence is in order for mac ii owners. > > -dave- > hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu maybe you could tell us the way you accomplished the making of the dust doors and where you put the screen? Forgive my ignorance. -Rob