czinngra@skat.usc.edu (Claude Zinngrabe) (12/18/90)
To anyone with an idea... I have been the proud owner of a Mac IIcx since October 1989. I love it, and until only recently (read: last week) it has performed flawlessly. Now I am getting a host of errors from the internal "FDHD" floppy drive. I am a student and can't afford to use high density diskettes, so I use,almost exclusively, 800K disks entirely. The drive now won't read _any_ 800K floppies. At first I assumed (correctly, as it turns out) that the R/W heads were dirty, so I disassembled the machine and used an air gun to blow the dust from the drive itself. I then used a drive-cleaning diskette to clean the heads. This apparently worked, for about an hour. Now it won't read anything I put into it. Someone told me that this was a common error, perhaps even a design flaw, though Apple won't admit it, in the drive. Is this the case?? Does anyone have any input? HELP!! (e-mail or post) Thanx in advance, Claude J. Zinngrabe, III czinngra@usc.edu