Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site heurikon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro,net.periphs Subject: 5-1/4" Floppy drive reliability Message-ID: <206@heurikon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 01:56:27 EST Article-I.D.: heurikon.206 Posted: Fri Feb 10 01:56:27 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 10:18:17 EST Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI Lines: 16 I would like to hear of your experiences with 5-1/4" floppy disk drive reliability studies. Even horror stories would help. We are evaluating numerous 5" drives (96 TPI, double sided) and have been finding trouble with Tandom, but not so much with others (e.g., Qume). We see a high level of data errors on the inner third tracks of a diskette. It seems related to improper head alignment, although even after careful realignment, we still find frequent errors. At first we thought it was our interface circuits which were at fault (fd1793 logic), but not so much anymore. Anybody else seen this or had experience with Tandom, good or bad? Thanks for your comments. -- /"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI |O.O| {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff (news & mail) \_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail - fast)