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03 April 2013, 07:34
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A500 floppy read/write error
So, being the smart person that I am, I took apart my a500 and screwed something up. After I put it back together, I started getting read/write errors with disks that were working.
After googling around, I have a feeling I knocked the heads out of line when I took the floppy drive out. I have found some info on manually realigning the upper and lower heads, but I haven't found any reference images or much detailed info on it. I have no idea what the heads look like or how to align them. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, H |
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03 April 2013, 17:04
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Its more likely they just need a clean.
See my last post on page 5 of this thread:- http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthre...t=64476&page=5 |
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03 April 2013, 17:07
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If youve not got any pure alchohol or isopropanol you can just use a damp cotton bud, basically you just need to remove particals from the heads without leaving residue.
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03 April 2013, 18:16
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If its just dirty, that would be amazing!
Do you think a floppy drive cleaning kit would work? |
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03 April 2013, 18:37
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it might it might not,but its so cheap and you need a cleaning kit anyway.
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07 April 2013, 06:30
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Turns out it was the disk, not the floppy....
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07 April 2013, 09:52
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so was the drive faulty or the floppy disk?
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07 April 2013, 17:18
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The floppy disk was faulty
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