Fairlight-CMI

I've always used the left-hand drive as Drive 1 on my Series I. Only 
ever used it to load a test 'beep' sound, and a tiny page R sequence, 
from the diagnostics disk - because I had no sound library. (well a 
Series I doesn't have much *practical* use any more!) Never had any 
problems.

Recently decided to try to backup the system disk. Booted qdos, tried 
to format a disk in drive 1. Formatted for a minute or so, then 
started throwing out errors. Failed. Tried a couple more times, 
failed. Hmmm. Tried a different disk, same problem. 

OK, lets check the drive - swap the 1/0 switch, boot off the left 
hand drive. Failed. Sh*t. Flip the switch back, boot the system as 
normal, try to load the test 'beep' from the diagnostics disk using 
page 2, as normal. 'Disk read/write error'. This *always* worked in 
the past... ever since I tried to format those disks, drive 1 has not 
worked at all, in any way. Tried cleaning heads - didn't help.

You're on page 2, it used to go chunkachanka a couple of times when 
you put the disk in, and give a file list. Now it goes clunk.... 
clunk.... clunk.... clunk... 

OK, has anyone got a clue how attempting to format a floppy can 
*break the disk drive* so it no longer works at all? Help!

Does anyone have a spare disk drive? Rob Brady has a couple, and he's 
just up the road from me, but both his spare drives are known to be 
dead... I've just got a loan of a sound library for a few days, so I 
have to fix this problem pronto, so I can get the sounds copied!

(nothing wierd about the disks BTW, standard DS/DD soft-sectored, 
same as the system disks I have).

Mike