[Coco] Replacement 360K floppy drives?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Also, if you have no cleaning disk, you can use a q-tip with cleaning alcohol, and wipe the head (and the little cleaning pad that clamps down when you close the drive door) directly.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Jan 10, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On 11/01/2015 1:26 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> One of my drives has gone out and now does IO ERROR on everything.
>> 
>> I don't suppose we have a source for working 360K 5 1/4" drives anymore do we?
>> 
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> 
> I had this happen to me all the time when I had my real drives connected.
> 
> The drives haven't gone out... the drive heads are dirty.
> 
> You've been reading these 30 year old disks and the magnetic material on the floppy is rubbing off onto the head. When I was doing my disks, I was running a cleaning disk after every 3 disks. I had to, they were I/O error'ing. Cleaned the heads and I was good for a few more.
> 
> I haven't used my real floppy drives in years. Between drivewire and now SDC, it's been reliable. I run a floppy disk free CoCo!
> 
> Nick
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