Re: HP-9114A Drive Message #8 Posted by aj04062 on 9 May 2011, 12:22 p.m., in response to message #7 by Paul Berger (Canada)
I am not at the computer right now, so I am going by memory from last night.
The disk intitializes and the head travels back and forth (I know this as the cover was off) several times.
I tried several times. I thought it could have been from the read/write slider being in the wrong position, but I don't think that is the case.
One or two times it seemed to step slowly across the disk.
In either case, I believe it ended with a message such as "bad media" or "unable to format, Abort, Retry or Ignore?"
I tried formatting @ 720k on an old laptop I had and that didn't work, the drive didn't recognize the disk. I am going to clean the head tonight. I do have an old floppy disk cleaning kit.
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