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From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: My !@#&*% IIci floppy drive...
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Date: 14 Nov 90 21:02:03 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.144505.3916@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Gavin_Eadie@UM.CC.UMich.EDU (Gavin Eadie) writes:
>In article <1990Nov13.225202.13399@hayes.ims.alaska.edu> 
>ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K) writes:
>> >>Email me if you have any wonderful insights!  Or... if you would just
>> >>like to bitch about your own superdrive problems...
>
>Well, I just had my IIci superdrive replaced with a new one -- the old one 
>got worse and worse till it wasn't usable at all.  The tech who did the 
>repair said that he'd seen several IIci's from the early batches with 
>floppy drive problems.  I seem to remember others reporting problems about 
>this in the past - does anyone know if Apple acknowledged any problems 
>with early IIci floppy drive quality control? 

We have had a number of problems with SuperDrives, not just in Mac IIci's but
also in SE/30s, IIcx's, IIx's, etc. etc. etc....  I've now reached the
point where I don't trust the damned things any more.  I've decided that 
whenever I save up enough money to buy a computer for home, I'm gonna rip
out the FDHD, sell it, and replace it with an 800K drive.  We consistently
have disks that read in one drive and not another.  Disks which won't
format in one machine but format fine in another and work on everything.
The campus computer store claims that they have had to replace every SuperDrive
they have had out in their display machines--they just seem to be MUCH more
fragile than the 800K drives.

Tom

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