Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watstat!dmurdoch
From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Floppy drive gone bad
Message-ID: <438@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 89 20:59:34 GMT
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Reply-To: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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My 3 year old 360K Panasonic floppy drive suddenly decided this afternoon that
it was one-sided.  Format pauses when it tries head 1, track 0, then does a 180K
format entirely on head 0.  Other programs report read errors on old disks
when I try to read them.

Is this a common failure?  Is there likely to be a simple fix for it?  Removing
and reattaching the cables didn't help.  

Duncan Murdoch