Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!pbhyf!mal
From: mal@PacBell.COM (Martin A. Lodahl)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Floppy Drive on a 3B1 seems dead
Keywords: floppy drive, 3B1, bad news
Message-ID: <6015@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 21:44:34 GMT
References: <4565@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: mal@PacBell.COM (Martin A. Lodahl)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <4565@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> lj@spdcc.COM (Len Jacobs) writes:
>
>While performing a complete backup on my 3B1 (3.51, 67 MB, 2 megs),
>the floppy drive stopped recognizing my disks ...

Please don't get as angry at this suggestion as I did when it was made
to me.  My circumstances were identical, and when I called a more pc-oriented
(my background is all in machines that seldom use floppies) friend for
advice, he asked me when I'd last cleaned the drive ....

One tantrum, a $7 cleaning kit from Radio Shark, and a couple of cleanings
later, I was back in business.  No trouble since.
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