Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!utopia.rutgers.edu!lius From: lius@utopia.rutgers.edu (Steve Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: 1.44 Meg Drive Problem Cause etc Summary: What can one do? Keywords: Drive Problems Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 90 08:35:26 GMT References: <1990Aug1.190114.600@watmath.waterloo.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 In article <1990Aug1.190114.600@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ahhills@watmath.waterloo.edu (Arthur Hills) writes: > > > There has been discussions on the net about the hardware problems with the > 1.44 Meg floppy disk drives. I am the hardware supervisor of one lab which > contains 50 SE'30 all with this drive. > I must have missed the previous discussion, but it's a topic I'm quite interested in, having attempted to format 100 disks, 40 of which formatted correctly, and 2 of which lasted more than one month without giving me a media error somewhere along the line (usually due to trying to re-format). > The solution has been to replace all the floppy drives in my > machines with the BLUE board controller. > Has this problem/solution been confirmed "officially"? If so, is there an upgrade policy, vis a vis the defective HD40? I told my dealer about the problem when I bought my machine two years ago; he told me there was no problem with the drive. I would like to start using the FDHD's capabilities, but have been afraid to trust it with important data as of late.