[Coco] drive issues

[Robert Hermanek]

I am no expert, that being said I pull my 30 year old drive out whenever 
I want and it works every time.  Hasn't been treated very well either.

Still, is it a drive issue?  Whenever I have issues, it turns out to be 
contacts -- unplug your controller and clean the edge connector. Unplug 
your drive cable on both ends and clean all of those edge connectors.  
Put the system back together, perhaps without an MPI if you were using 
one before, and see if you still have "drive issues."  If you don't, you 
were having edge connector issues instead, which is very common since 
all the connectors are those cheapo tin ones and not gold plated ones 
generally.

If you've already done this, well.... you probably have drive issues :)

-RobertH


On 7/13/2015 9:34 PM, Josh Harper via Coco wrote:
>   hi guys
> I have a dual teac drive system
> my issue is
> first  I was copying disk  from real drive 0 to sd with no problems copied like 20 disk no issues then I went to copy a few  more disk when I put the diosk in  there was weird noises and sqilling
> now drive is having issues readingalso when  I do a dskini0 it will do first pass but wont do a second pass
> I tried a disk cleaning disk but that didn't work
> can a dirty head cause this or is the drive going bad
> oh and I tried 2 different disk when I did the dskini0
> thanks
>