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E II reads floppy disks only sometimes

E II reads floppy disks only sometimes

2009-07-29 by holgmanackis

Hi,

I have problem with my Emulator II which reads the floppy disks only sometimes.

In detail:

When I turn on the Emu the display says "***Emulator 2*** Boot in Progress" and after a while "Insert Diskette". The drives seems to run mormally with normal sound and the floppy-LEDs are frequently switching from drive 1  to drive 2.

When I insert a disk and close the lever moste times nothing happens.
Sometimes after restarting the Emu (maybe after moving (shocking?!?) it, it reads the floppy and behaves normal.

If it works after startup, it works for every disk unless shutdown.

Does anybody have any idea?

Thanks very much,

best regards

Michael

Re: E II reads floppy disks only sometimes

2009-07-29 by hexafuzz

You might try cleaning your drives with canned compressed air, as well as reseating all power/data cable connectors. Clean the cable contacts (DeoxIT) while youre at it. In cases of dirty drive heads, I have also had luck using 5-1/4" cleaning disks.

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.