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From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP!! -- MAC NO LONGER RECOGNIZES FLOPPY DRIVES!!
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Date: 7 May 88 16:06:58 GMT
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In article <4239@dasys1.UUCP> cohen@dasys1.UUCP (David Cohen) writes:
>Recently my sister called to tell me that her mac 512KE wasn't accepting
>any disks of hers. She tried the external drive on another machine
>and it worked as did the disks. All this lead me to suspect a 
>hardware problem. I checked AppleLink's service database and found that
>there are 2 things to do at this point--one is to replace a chip in position
>d8, the disk controller apparently and if that doesn't work, to swap the 
>logic board.

Keep in mind, is could also be a disk drive problem.
I had a similar problem and the drive was replaced and it is a happy
mac now.

-Andy

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