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From: maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten Carels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 1.44 Meg Drive Problem Cause etc
Keywords: Drive Problems
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Date: 20 Aug 90 12:10:42 GMT
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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.

>   	The solution has been to replace all the floppy drives in my 
>  machines with the BLUE board controller.
>  	

I looked into the drive inside my cx. I would call the colour of the board
of the floppy blueish green (or greenish blue)... Is there any other way to
recognize the drives (such as partnumbers, serial numbers being greater than
some value, ...)?

Is there any clue of the date Apple started using the newer (BLUE) devices.
Is there a replacement program?
Could someone from Apple shine a light on this ?

--maarten
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In real life:	Maarten Carels
		Computer Science Department
		University of Amsterdam
email:		maarten@fwi.uva.nl