Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!tomc
From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 800K disk drive blues
Message-ID: <1988Feb16.111253.2237@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 16 Feb 88 19:12:49 GMT
References: <870141@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
Lines: 19
Summary: I had the same problem - and it cost $$$!

In article <870141@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, cnc@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Chris Christensen) writes:
> 3?) What do people do about service for lower cost items like this. I called
> a dealer who told me it would cost $35 just to look at it and then $55 an
> hour to fix it. I already looked at it and it appears that a copper loop around
> the top disk head has broken.

Last summer I had the drive in my Mac Plus do the same thing - catch
and rip the head from the upper arm in the drive.

IT COST ME $164 to get it fixed.  There is essentially no fix, they
have to replace the drive with a reconditioned one. 

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