Darshevo
Experienced Member
I finally scored a 128D after months of ebay bidding and losing. As posted in another thread it came to me just rattling around loose in a cadrboard box. I am 'pretty sure' when it arrived I tested the floppy by loading a program (90% sure I didn't just dream about doing it)
I moved it from one end of the table to its permanent home and now when a disk is inserted and access it makes a relatively loud rubbing noise and a but of a squeal. It does load and run properly, just very very noisy. I pulled the disk out that I was using and found it to have a rub mark on the media itself in the opening where the drive reads the disk. Oddly the drive continues to run until the door is opened, but it apparantly isn't moving the disk itself as the rub mark is right there (only tried it on 1 otther disk as I do not want to damage them)
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.
Also, in the way olden days (like back when a commodore 64 was on the desk in many homes as the personal computer being used, not admired or collected) I had a white card that was meant to be used in the drive when it was in transit. I found out at a young age that inserting that card into a drive that had troubles would solve them about 75% of the time. If anyone has a full size scan of one of these cards I could get to make another it would be greatly appreciated.
-Lance
I moved it from one end of the table to its permanent home and now when a disk is inserted and access it makes a relatively loud rubbing noise and a but of a squeal. It does load and run properly, just very very noisy. I pulled the disk out that I was using and found it to have a rub mark on the media itself in the opening where the drive reads the disk. Oddly the drive continues to run until the door is opened, but it apparantly isn't moving the disk itself as the rub mark is right there (only tried it on 1 otther disk as I do not want to damage them)
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.
Also, in the way olden days (like back when a commodore 64 was on the desk in many homes as the personal computer being used, not admired or collected) I had a white card that was meant to be used in the drive when it was in transit. I found out at a young age that inserting that card into a drive that had troubles would solve them about 75% of the time. If anyone has a full size scan of one of these cards I could get to make another it would be greatly appreciated.
-Lance