My Apple Unidisk 5 1/4 disk drives doesn't read disks. Drive lights stay solid on both drives.
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Solid drive light on Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, not able to read disks.
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Apple iie. Controller card works with my Floppy Emu.
I have cleaned the heads on both drives.
I do not know how to check speed.
Try it with just one drive connected. If it doesn’t work then try it with just the other drive connected
Same issue. The motor constantly runs with no disk inserted.
IIRC this is more or less an usual behavior, only the IIc will stop and display the « check the Disk drive » message.
www.apple2faq.com
Adjustment of 5.25 floppy drive speed - Apple II FAQ
Important: this is an excerpt from the Applebox site copied with permission Although there are a lot of software programs out there to adjust the speed of a drive I will only comment here a selection of the 3 most common ones and will leave those from the shareware market aside, due to the fact...
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An Apple IIe 5.25” drive will run forever with no disk inserted.
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