Emax

I had a similar problem a few years ago with my EMAXII and I just used a
floppy disk cleaner on it and it has been fine since.  You should be able to
buy a cleaner for a few dollars.  It might save you the price of a new
drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: <ghurd@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: [emax] bad disk drive?


> Hi everyone,
>
> New member here. Nice to see the Emax community still thrives.
>
> I just acquired an Emax SE Rack, and I think the floppy drive
> might be crapped out. I just wanted to tell everyone what's
> happening, and see if there might be something I haven't
> thought of. Here are some of the things that happen:
>
> 1. when I load the boot disk that came with the unit, I will
> sometimes (not always), get a message saying "Please Insert
> Disk" even though the disk is in the drive.
>
> 2. Sometimes the abovementioned disk will begin to load, and
> then when it gets to loading the bank on the disk i get a "Disk
> Error!" message. Once I was actually able to navigate a little bit
> through the OS, but most functions needed to be loaded off the
> disk, so I got disk errors afterward.
>
> 3. When I attempt to load disks that I have from when I used to
> own an Emax SE keyboard, the rack will give me a message
> saying "Disk Not Formatted!" even though I know the disks were
> formatted using OS 1.1.
>
> 4. Most other times I stick a disk in and I just get a "Disk Error"
> message.
>
> What I don't understand is if the floppy drive is busted, why do I
> get different messages?
>
> Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there and see if someone
> recognizes the symptoms of a floppy drive gone bad.
>
> thanks,
> gordon hurd
>
>
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