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| Solid drive light on Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, not able to read disks. | |
| Posted by: ikethederg on 2023-06-10 08:53:59 My Apple Unidisk 5 1/4 disk drives doesn't read disks. Drive lights stay solid on both drives. | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-11 13:06:37 What computer have you got and trying to boot from ? | |
| Posted by: ikethederg on 2023-06-11 13:10:10 Apple iie. Controller card works with my Floppy Emu. | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-12 11:36:45 First step is to look for a dirty head or a wrong spinning speed. Most troubles are related to one of both issues | |
| Posted by: ikethederg on 2023-06-12 12:17:55 I have cleaned the heads on both drives. | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-12 13:41:02 And concerning speed ? Should be 300 rpm or better 299 rpm | |
| Posted by: ikethederg on 2023-06-12 14:27:19 I do not know how to check speed. | |
| Posted by: waynestewart on 2023-06-12 15:49:44 Try it with just one drive connected. If it doesn’t work then try it with just the other drive connected | |
| Posted by: ikethederg on 2023-06-12 15:53:57 Same issue. The motor constantly runs with no disk inserted. Try it with just one drive connected. If it doesn’t work then try it with just the other drive connected | |
| Posted by: bibilit on 2023-06-12 22:53:26 IIRC this is more or less an usual behavior, only the IIc will stop and display the « check the Disk drive » message. 
Adjustment of 5.25 floppy drive speed - Apple II FAQImportant: this is an excerpt from the Applebox site copied with permission Although there are a lot of software programs out there to adjust the speed of a drive I will only comment here a selection of the 3 most common ones and will leave those from the shareware market aside, due to the fact...
www.apple2faq.com
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| Posted by: waynestewart on 2023-06-13 06:46:43 An Apple IIe 5.25” drive will run forever with no disk inserted. | |
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