Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!nikhefk!henkp
From: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Tandon disk drives lose upper head
Message-ID: <425@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 20:00:54 GMT
References: <718@pedsga.UUCP>
Reply-To: henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek)
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <718@pedsga.UUCP> jeffj@pedsga.UUCP writes:

>I have had two Tandon TM-848-02 floppy drives fail recently.
>(half height DSDD 8")
>Both failed the same way.
>They worked as double sided, then the upper head failed.
>Now they cannot read nor write the upper side,

I have this seen more times by Tandon floppy drives.
The only thing you can do to let this not happen is to
step the drive so fast that the haeds are continous moving.
In many computers the steprate is slow that any (old) type
drive works.

Henk Peek   ..!uunet!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp.UUCP