As for drives which seem to have a hard time ejecting diskettes, they sometimes come around by a thorough blowing out of dust but by and large my practice when faced with a diskette drive that is not working properly has been to replace it with a unit I picked up on eBay. I have cultivated at least one relationship with an eBay vendor I trust and I find it more practical to just fork over a few bucks knowing he will stand behind his stuff than to spend hours trying to repair my own units.
Good luck!!
Jim Foster
On 31-May-04, at 12:17 PM, Michael Hackett wrote:
Does anyone know what makes floppy drives go bad? (Sounds like a Dateline story.)
Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
-- Michael
P.S. If anyone is interested in any of these systems or drives, drop me a line. I'm just cleaning them up and testing them before putting them on the swap list.
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