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From: czinngra@skat.usc.edu (Claude Zinngrabe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Apple's FDHD: Problems!!
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Date: 17 Dec 90 22:07:22 GMT
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To anyone with an idea...

I have been the proud owner of a Mac IIcx since October 1989.  I love it,
and until only recently (read: last week) it has performed flawlessly.  Now
I am getting a host of errors from the internal "FDHD" floppy drive.

	  I am a student and can't afford to use high density diskettes, so I
use,almost exclusively, 800K disks entirely.  The drive now won't read _any_
800K floppies.  At first I assumed (correctly, as it turns out) that the R/W
heads were dirty, so I disassembled the machine and used an air gun to blow the
dust from the drive itself.  I then used a drive-cleaning diskette to clean the
heads.  This apparently worked, for about an hour.  Now it won't read anything
I put into it.

	Someone told me that this was a common error, perhaps even a design
flaw, though Apple won't admit it, in the drive.  Is this the case??  Does
anyone have any input?

HELP!! (e-mail or post)


Thanx in advance,

Claude J. Zinngrabe, III
czinngra@usc.edu