Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!decvax!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ack From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HELP!! -- MAC NO LONGER RECOGNIZES FLOPPY DRIVES!! Message-ID: <8394@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 7 May 88 16:06:58 GMT References: <4239@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Organization: Ack Systems Lines: 20 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 Just say Wafna! Andy J. Williams '90 |Ack Systems: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu| _ /| Software Development +--------------------------------------+ \`o_O' ACK! Kiewit Computation Center|Hello. My $NAME is ~inigo_montoya. | ( ) / Dartmouth College |You killed my process. Prepare to vi.| U