[Coco] drive hastles

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Chester A. Patterson may have mentioned these words:
>Oh I cleaned them allright! Got in there with Q-tips and 98% ethanol and
>went to town. Plenty of gunk.

If there was that much gunk on the heads, the drive motor/belt might have 
some gunk in there too, and the drive might not be "up to speed" so to 
speak. The 5.25 drive should spin at 300RPM, IIRC.

There are programs to check the spin speed of the drive - (check for index 
pulse, start timer, count until next index pulse, read timer, compare to 
table and/or calculate RPM) but at this rate, you might need a xfer proggie 
from a PC w/3.5" drive to get it to your CoCo. There's been several threads 
lately WRT them.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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sysadmin, Iceberg Computers |           Russell Nelson
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