david__schmidt
Veteran Member
I was helping someone prepare for VFC East this year, and long story short - I ended up with five Bernoulli 20MB 8" floppy/cartridge drives. One of the five works wonderfully; the rest refuse to load the media after inspecting it. Given that these drives came shipped with a cleaning cartridge, and that consisted of wiping an alcohol-soaked pad back and forth against the head(s), I am hoping that at least some of my problem lies in dirty heads.
Lacking any cleaning cartridges myself, has anyone done any manual cleaning operations on these drives? They're pretty involved to disassemble, so I can see why a cleaning cartridge was a more viable option...
Lacking any cleaning cartridges myself, has anyone done any manual cleaning operations on these drives? They're pretty involved to disassemble, so I can see why a cleaning cartridge was a more viable option...