Msg: 4860 *Conference*

01-01-93 22:29:05

From: EARL VAUGHAN

To : RICHARD HANSON

Subj: TPDD2

My TPDD2 is acting up again. Every time Insert a disk and try to access it
through TS-DOS, it tells me the disk is blank and unformatted. I'm afraid to
try a cold start on my Model 200 because I've got some data in there I'll need
to hold onto if the drive has gone dead one me. I tried cleaning the drive with
a Radio Shack cleaner, but that had no effect. Is there anything I can do to
determine for sure if the drive is messed up, or where the problem is for sureI
did try to format a disk that I know is blank, and when it got to the end, I
got a communicati on error code on the screen. Also, whenever I try to get the
drive to read a disk, it changes the telcom parameters from whatever I've set
them to 98nn1n, or something like that. Any suggestions, or am I hopelessly
lost?