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Re: Floppy drive issues

2013-03-10 by David

David
If you want to try one of my drives in your machine, give me a call!

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" <dvdborn@...> wrote:
>
> I removed both drives from the IIx and they didn't really looked like they needed any cleaning. There wasn't any grease or dirt to be seen.
> 
> You can have a look at both drives on this page that I quickly put together:
> 
> http://apple.phl.be/~dvdborn/Fairlight/IIx_drives/
> 
> There's also a sound recording of one of the drives trying to boot and a screen shot of the failing boot process.
> 
> Now that both drives are back in the IIx they both exhibit the same problem.
> 
> Before, only the the right side drive would try to boot. The left drive wouldn't do anything. Now, the left drive also tries to boot when it's selected as the boot drive.
> 
> So, there's some improvement. But I'm not quite there yet.
> 
> Best,
> David
>

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