From: nospam.Ginger1@f1.n770.z1572.fidonet.org   
      
   FM> > consistent "Couldn't format Cylinder 0" error. floppies in   
   FM> > question were very well cared for and previously working fine   
   FM> > and it is happening across all of them. I'm worried I have   
   FM> > somehow fried the drive logic on the motherboard, as I   
   FM> > previously having the same issue on the internal drive (leading   
   FM> > to my   
   FM> >  repair attempts.)   
   FM> > Any ideas or suggestions much appreciated!   
      
   FM> Hi, it seems like a High Density - Low-Density problem. Try   
   FM> covering the little window on the right with some tape.   
      
   The floppies are double-density ones I'm afraid. So no holes to cover.   
      
   I did make me think though, as the external drive I have is a Power   
   Computing one that supports HD as well as DD. But fiddling with the mode   
   switch at the back doesn't seem to help.   
      
   I cleaned the heads yesterday and managed to get one side of the disk to   
   give all greens on xcopy's checkdisk function - but the others were   
   completely red. And still not formatting - with the "Cylinder 0" error.   
      
      
      
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