on 11/7/03 10:09 PM, Chris "Zap" at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the info. I cleaned all the mechanisms and the drive now > successfully ejects a disk. I'm going to clean the drive on my Plus this > way.. I finally figured out what is causing the inject/eject to stick! The > next problem appears to be that the Mac makes funny sounds from the speaker > (tones) if the drive is connected... and also, it appears that a motor is > always running, disk in or not. I don't see anything about this in the Dead > Mac Scrolls. It still will not read a good disk.. just spits it out with > the X, but at least the eject mechanism works now! When the disk is in, I > don't see the read head moving, maybe this is the problem? Hopefully one of > these days I can get this thing to boot, and then I can see if the HD works. > > -Chris
Motor always running is probably the eject mechanism in the drive. Can you get it to keep a disk inside? Or does it always want to spit it out? I found a problem like that with Mac Plus using drives from external drive shells. Turns out it was a wrong floppy drive cable. Jeff -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
