About a month ago (give or take), I asked a question about floppy disks that wouldn't eject properly from my internal floppy drive in my SE/30.
I received a few replies saying it was time to replace my drive, and like an idiot, I went with the statistics instead of the list's advice. The drive had never failed prior to me using those disks, and didn't fail to eject the other disks I was using at the time, so I figured it was the disks. Now it appears to be coincedence that then drive failed half the time, as it seems to be failing all the time today. It appears to read fine, and last time I wrote to it, it appeared to be fine (that would have been when I asked my original floppy disk question; I was copying disks). Are there any kind of adjustments for the eject mechanism? Perhaps an area I should look for excessive dust bunnies? I've used this machine pretty steady for the last 2 years or so, so the fan may have piled a bunch of poop somewhere it shouldn't be. It doesn't appear that the disk is rubbing the case plastic when ejected, but is there a way to check if the drive has shifted a bit on its bracket? As it will likely be easier to replace this drive than fix it, what models use the same drive? I have quite a few Macs in my basement, ranging from a Plus to a G3 MT. I've read about these manual inject and auto inject drives, and never really understood the difference. The donor machines I have in mind are the IIci (preferably, I have quite a few drives from those machines) or an LC II. Any other machines would require pulling a drive from a working unit :( Perhaps this repair will be the one that I add the extra 16M RAM I've had for for nearly a year now while the case is cracked? Well, actually only 12M, as the machine currently has 20M (4-4M, and 4-1M). Any advice would be appreciate, Thanks, J White -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
