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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Apple 3.5 drive woes
- Message-ID: <viking.726734913@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Summary: Well, they both flaked out.
- Keywords: sudden, catastrophic
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:48:33 GMT
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- Here's a strange one. I loaned a 3.5" drive to a friend of
- mine, keeping the other for myself. He returned it, I attached it
- (yes, I powered down the machine and waited), and it worked fine.
-
- The next day, neither drive will read a disk from GS/OS,
- and only occassionally from Prodos 8. In addition, every format
- fails and reading is very spotty on a file-by-file basis. The
- format in Copy II Plus gives the error at block 0006, if that's
- any help.
-
- Thus, the question: anybody know of a place that repairs
- Apple 3.5" drives for a reasonable cost? Apple dealers just like
- to replace them, and I see no reason to pay $75 each to exchange
- them with some place. There has to be some place that will replace
- drive heads, or set alignment, or whatever is wrong on a part-by-
- part basis, or at least quite cheaply.
-
- Ideas? A phone number is great to include.
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother >
- < to my girlfriend, about me. "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
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