[Coco] 26-3022 Disk Drive and controller
CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
coco at maltedmedia.com
Fri May 9 22:29:06 EDT 2014
Welcome to the community,
let me add to what advice Gene gave you about 360k drives that I
have learned the hard way over the years.
First clean the back connectors with Acetone which is best.
second "refresh" the hold the ribbon cable connectors have on the
cable. Do this by putting them in a vice and applying pressure to
reseat them.
and third take the disks out of the drives before you power down the
system. The voltage spike can often mess up the control code on
the disks that can't be fixed except with a complete reformat losing all
data.
Roy
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