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- From: Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>
- Subject: Re: Apple 5.25 Drive
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.190152.25708@gallant.apple.com>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:01:52 GMT
- X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 11:03:17 GMT
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- References: <kb84138@pro-storm.cts.com>
- Organization: Apple
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- In article <kb84138@pro-storm.cts.com> Jason Addison,
- mustang@pro-storm.cts.com writes:
- >I have the apple 5.25 drive (the platinum one) and I recently, ahem,
- >dropped it on a tile floor. It is now impossible to even stick a disk
- into
- >the drive. Has this happened to anyone's drive before? Any ideas on how
- >to fix it? (If it requires repair, I may just buy an older drive...) If
-
- I don't know how the 5.25" drive is constructed, but I had a similar
- problem
- with an Apple 3.5" drive a few years ago. I thought I had completely
- ruined the
- drive, and at the time I was too paranoid to open up the drive myself.
-
- It ended up that the inside metal framework was bent a little bit which
- made getting
- a disk into/out of the drive very difficult.. My solution was simply to
- take one of those
- 3.5" plastic "travelling" disks and stick it half way in teh drive and
- wiggle/jam it side
- to side to bend the interior framework back.
-
- Try to see if something like this is causing your problem.. You might
- have to actually
- open the drive, since on my 3.5" drive, I couldn't see from the outside
- that it was simply
- a physical blockage of the path.
-