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From: thrash@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Richie Tozier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Central Point 3.5 inch disk drives
Keywords: problems, problems & more problems
Message-ID: <596@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 26 Apr 89 17:37:37 GMT
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Reply-To: thrash@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Richie Tozier)
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I had some problems with the 5 1/4' of theirs on my friends laser 128...
they problem with his was the handle drive door not pushing hard enough
on the diskette..as far as i can tell their drives are CHEAPLY made...
i suspect the problem is similar with the 800k drives..please explain
how it acts up...ie does some programs/disks work fine with it and others
dont? .. also i had a problem with a apple 800k drive back a while..the problemn
with it was that the little thing (arm?) that pushed the metal cover on the
disk over was messed up (bent upwards) and most of the time the disk cover
on the 3.5 disk wouldnt open...in other words the drive would be trying to read
through the metal cover...(ughh)../.

Please though tell what its doing and i might be able to help ya out...

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