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From: lii@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (louis.i.ingwersen)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Floppy Drive on a 3B1 seems dead
Keywords: floppy drive, 3B1, bad news
Message-ID: <1689@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:57:48 GMT
References: <4565@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: lii@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (louis.i.ingwersen,ih,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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.
>
>Is there any known fix besides replacing the drive?  What models
>can be used as replacements?
>
I replaced my old 5 1/4" floppy drive with a TEAC FD-35FN 3 1/2"
800 K formated floppy disk.  It works pretty good for me.  You
just can't use the floppy disks with a data transfer speed of
500 K-bits/sec.  It must be 250 K-bits/sec. for a direct replacement.


				Lou Ingwersen IH-6K-330  ihlpf!lii
				AT&T Bell Laboratories