pcamen
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In the last couple of weeks I've used my Applesauce to convert quite a few 3.5" floppies ... 400k, 800k, and 1.44M. It worked well. I even broke the drive eject gear, replaced it, and it kept on chugging just fine.
But a few disks I did this week have me scratching my head. They came with two different Farallon Star Controller. One of them had clearly been used before (but was in good shape) and the other two were in a sealed envelope. When I tried to read them with the Applesauce, all three had many bad sectors.
On in particular, I kept retrying the bad sectors over and over and it would correct a few each time, until I got down to the ones it could not correct.
I tried cleaning the drive head, and the next time I tried to read the same disk, it was much worse than it had previously been.
For giggles, I tried reading the disks using my LC 475. Here’s where I am confused. The LC 475 had no trouble reading the disks and making images of them, all with no errors. I even tried running one of the programs that the Applesauce said had errors and it seemed to run fine.
When I tried the external drive on a Iici, it found the same disks unreadable whereas the Iici internal drive didn’t have issue with them.
I am using a Superdrive in an 800k housing (because true external Superdrives are very hard to come by). I don't suppose that creates some strange issue does it? All three disks are 800k disks.
I haven't tried replacing the Superdrive with another one yet (it is a bit of a PITA to get the drive in/out of the external housing, and I have to attach a rotation sensor for the Applecause to a new one) but that's probably my next step.
Anyone know what can generally go wrong with external drive electronics or internal drives that might cause issues like this?
But a few disks I did this week have me scratching my head. They came with two different Farallon Star Controller. One of them had clearly been used before (but was in good shape) and the other two were in a sealed envelope. When I tried to read them with the Applesauce, all three had many bad sectors.
On in particular, I kept retrying the bad sectors over and over and it would correct a few each time, until I got down to the ones it could not correct.
I tried cleaning the drive head, and the next time I tried to read the same disk, it was much worse than it had previously been.
For giggles, I tried reading the disks using my LC 475. Here’s where I am confused. The LC 475 had no trouble reading the disks and making images of them, all with no errors. I even tried running one of the programs that the Applesauce said had errors and it seemed to run fine.
When I tried the external drive on a Iici, it found the same disks unreadable whereas the Iici internal drive didn’t have issue with them.
I am using a Superdrive in an 800k housing (because true external Superdrives are very hard to come by). I don't suppose that creates some strange issue does it? All three disks are 800k disks.
I haven't tried replacing the Superdrive with another one yet (it is a bit of a PITA to get the drive in/out of the external housing, and I have to attach a rotation sensor for the Applecause to a new one) but that's probably my next step.
Anyone know what can generally go wrong with external drive electronics or internal drives that might cause issues like this?