| Author: | bluebirdpod (registered user: 28 posts ) |
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| Date: | Thu, Sep 23rd, 2010 @ 10:43 ( . ) |
Pete's right about bending the arm that pushes down on the hub ring spindle. Some floppies are flattened out to the point they cause extra drag, and if the hub latch isnt tight enough it slips. I have also noticed that some floppies are so "tight" that it slows the motor down. A friend of mine who delivered magazines use to pull the disks out of old compute gazette's and some of them were to flattened out by the stacking or bundling process. He gave use a several hundred that we pulled the labels and notched them, or used a drive with switch to ignore write protect. Another strange issue I had with a supercard+ I had installed into a 1541 was with it being located DIRECTLY next to a 1702 monitor with the metal shielding removed. That caused all sorts of strange issues with the monitor bleeding RF into the drive, It would work sometimes then not others!, took me a while after moving it away from the monitor to figure out what was causing the drive to fail writing. Also lets not forget about the mold issue with floppies from more humid parts of the US or world, here in Denver we dont have this problem, But I had bought games from parts of the US and had lots of spots, and USUALLY you can use a Q-tip and strong alcohol and remove the mold, careful not to rub off the magnetic coating. It can happen to all kinds of floppies. I bought King's Quest series for a Apple2GS on 3.5's and wondered for years why they didnt load, well I found mold on all the floppies, the q-tip deally fixed all of them, and I had the ebay receipt and sure enough they were from the East coast-US. |
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