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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1.2 MB floppy drive permanently "not ready" -- help!
Keywords: floppy disk drive broken 1.2 MB
Message-ID: <1195@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 08:04:06 GMT
References: <1135@sactoh0>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
Lines: 19

In article <1135@sactoh0> mahaun@sactoh0 (Mark A. Haun) writes:
| Thinking that perhaps the problem was a
| simple one (a stuck mechanical switch hooked to the drive-closing
| arm, etc.), I opened up the computer, poked around a bit, and then
| powered up with the case off to observe the drive working.  No
| matter how much I tried, I could not get it to malfunction!!!
| Hoping the problem was gone, I put the case back on, hooked up all
| my cables, and guess what... same problem!
| 
|     Now the drive almost never works, and when it does,
|     it's usually shortly after I turn it on in the morning.  After
|     being on several hours, it *never* works!

Sounds very much like a heat problem.  Another possibility is the
controller card being a bit askew in the slot.  But I'd bet on heat.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu