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Offline Desmon

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Re: Floppy Pain In The Butt Problem
« on: April 30, 2003, 10:09:36 AM »
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The problem I'm having is kinda strange. Every now and then, my system reads my floppy drive for no apearant reason. Ordinarilly this isn't a problem, but whenever I try to restore an ADF to a disk, I have to do it several times because this read cycle interferes with both Tacktool and DiskWiz.

I've yanked all my WB enhancements out, even disabled CrossDos, and still have this problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

I had much the same problem on my A2000. Because it lives in my bedroom and runs 24/7 the FDD reads would even wake me up.

Turned out to be a suspect diskinsert switch. A quick spray with CRC contact cleaner (possibly available where you live) was enough to fix it for a few months.
Eventually the switch itself gave up though, so I simply replaced the 880k FDD with one from an A500. Took some work to swap the casings, and not all A500 FDDs are the same, but it did work.

I'd suggect pulling the drive down and testing the diskinsert switch with an ohm meter.
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