Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:50082 comp.sys.mac.hardware:2096 comp.sys.mac.programmer:12974 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!hub!castor!stoms From: stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive Message-ID: <4227@hub.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 90 02:31:57 GMT References: Sender: news@hub.UUCP Reply-To: stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms) Organization: U. C. Santa Barbara, Geography Department Lines: 12 After about a year my drives started rejecting most disks on an irregular basis. I finally relented and opened my Mac II up and examined the drives carefully. The mechanism that recieved the disk was sticking and the drive head was dust. Actually the whole thing was dusty. I don't recommend this, but I attacked it with damp q-tips. You have to be very careful that the q-tips don't fall apart. So after the drives looked clean I played with the insertion mechanism for a while. It kept not seating the disk all the way but after a few hours of working it something happened and it started seating disks perfectly. The change was rather surprising because it was so sudden. My drives have been work well ever since. Maybe I'll have to clean them again soon though.