smrieck511
Well-known member
I have a 1.44mb Drive from an SE FDHD that is acting strangely (I also have a spare 800k that I could take some parts from). I'm pretty familiar with tearing the drives down and yes, the cheese cog has been replaced.
Symptoms -
The GOOD:
- Eject mechanics are working perfecto...Drive is lubed and gear has been replaced.
The STRANGE:
- Fails trying to format an 800k disk UNLESS I format it to One Side first and then format it to Two Sided. In this way, it DOES reliably format 800k disks.
- 1.44 Disks either get the "Needs Minor Repairs" error and on repair attempt fails and ejects.
- OR Ask to Initialize the disk at which point, everything appears to go well. The drive writes up the disk but when the head comes back down to Verify, I get the Verification Failed error and the disk ejects. Every time.
And advice is greatly appreciated.
Symptoms -
The GOOD:
- Eject mechanics are working perfecto...Drive is lubed and gear has been replaced.
The STRANGE:
- Fails trying to format an 800k disk UNLESS I format it to One Side first and then format it to Two Sided. In this way, it DOES reliably format 800k disks.
- 1.44 Disks either get the "Needs Minor Repairs" error and on repair attempt fails and ejects.
- OR Ask to Initialize the disk at which point, everything appears to go well. The drive writes up the disk but when the head comes back down to Verify, I get the Verification Failed error and the disk ejects. Every time.
And advice is greatly appreciated.