Fairlight-CMI

I was thinking the same. But I replaced the disk controller card with the one from my working IIx and the results were the same. The defective IIx still wouldn't boot. 

Next thing I need to try is place the faulty drives in my working unit and see if they work or not. 

David

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Vogel" <peter.vogel@...> wrote:
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> If both drives are failing, doesn't that point to a controller fault?
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> From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of WT
> Sent: Monday, 11 March 2013 2:50 AM
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Floppy drive issues
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> Is the screw that holds the spindle loose ?
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> WT
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> From: David <mailto:davidmorley@...>  
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> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com 
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> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:07 PM
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> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Floppy drive issues
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> David
> If you want to try one of my drives in your machine, give me a call!
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> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dvdborn" <dvdborn@> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > You can have a look at both drives on this page that I quickly put
> together:
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> > http://apple.phl.be/~dvdborn/Fairlight/IIx_drives/
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> > There's also a sound recording of one of the drives trying to boot and a
> screen shot of the failing boot process.
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> > Now that both drives are back in the IIx they both exhibit the same
> problem.
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> > 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.
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> > So, there's some improvement. But I'm not quite there yet.
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> > Best,
> > David
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