if your floppy's are spinning and the mechanic of your drive works, all you have to do is clean the heads of the drive. maybe know someone nearby with cleaning floppy's (and cleaning liquid) they used to sell them as a floppy-cleaning-set, but i don't think you can find those anymore.
Op 15-aug-09, om 23:05 heeft Greg Rossiter het volgende geschreven: > Ok, looks like I need to find out how to disassemble and clean the > drive. I don't have the right screwdriver to remove the case, but > I'll get one. > > An update, however. Maybe it was just a bit jammed from long time > lack of use (I'm not the first owner), but after popping a disk in > there a few more times, I do hear spinning now, but instead of > reading the disk, it'll say it's unreadable and offer to format it. > I also hear some clicking with some of the disks I put in, but other > times not. These are disks that are totally fine on my Mac SE and > Performa 575. Does that seem to confirm that it just needs a > cleaning? Connection-wise it seems to be doing ok and it'll even > auto-eject the disks back out now. It just won't read them. > > Thanks for your input. > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Alexander Krause <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is the internal cable connected to the system? > > > It has to be. Otherwise the drive would not automatically insert the > disk. > > Am I wrong? > > Maybe, the cable is broken!? > > > Is there a guide somewhere that shows how to properly clean a mac > > floppy drive? > > Well, I dont't know, but you simply have to disassemble the drive and > clean it from all dust and so on. You mustn't put any oil in there. > You can take some photos after each step so you know what you've done. > > That's what I would do if I were in your situation. > > -- Alex > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
