[Coco] weird 360K drive

[Arthur Flexser]

I believe it is normal for the drive to spin when accessing other drives. Not
being able to access disks other than those written on the same drive is a sure
sign that the drive is out of alignment.  Without an alignment diskette, you
might or might not be able to fix it.  With not much to lose, you could try
writing a program that continually tries to read a sector from one of your old
disks and beeps or something when it succeeds, and fiddle with the alignment
setting while the program runs until it hopefully starts beeping.  (I've never
attempted this technique, so I can't estimate its likelihood of success.)

Art


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Diego Barizo wrote:

> I've got a 360K drive that's got some attitude.
> It won't read any of my disks, but will happily format , write and read 
> disks that it wrote. Those disks don't seem to work on other drives
> Also, the drive will spin even when I'm accessing other drives (It 
> doesn't attempt to read, just spins)
> I guess there is no easy way to fix this?
> 
> Diego
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