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From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: IIGS disk drive woes
Message-ID: <18970@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 05:40:06 GMT
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     I have a rev-01 IIGS with two 5.25" disk drives hooked up to the 
SmartPort.  Last night, the drive cable worked loose from the back of the
machine while it was on (I'd moved the machine and forgot to rescrew the
cables), and now drive 1 always spins whenever the machine is on.  It seems
to work despite this, but drive 2 doesn't work at all; drive 1 still spins
while I'm accessing drive 2, and apparently there's not enough power for both
drives to spin up at once.
     The dealer, of course, refuses to even look at a IIGS in any context other
than a motherboard swap.  Is anyone out there familiar with this problem, and
is it something that can be fixed without swapping the motherboard?
     Please respond by email; I'll summarize if there's interest.  Thanks in
advance for any help you can give.

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