Dying PCjr drive; options?

[Jim Leonard]

Tony Duell wrote:
> This sounds (!) like it's not detecting track 0 correctly, it's just 
> banging the head into the end stop. 
> 
> My first thought is to clean the track 0 sensor (has it got dust in the 
> gap), then sit down with the drive and test gear and debug the circuitry.

I'm starting from ground zero.  Where *is* the track 0 sensor?  (a hard thing 
to describe without pictures, I know... sorry)

> No, it's a standard half-height 360K floppy drive. IIRC the original was 
> a Qumetrack or something, which has a bad reputation. 

I've had three go out on me in a decade... come to think of it, I've only had 4 
floppy drives die on me in a decade, so that indeed makes the Qumetrack the 
worst in my experience :-/
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