Hi Wesley,
Short answer is no.
Here's the reason why.
There is a rubber bump stop on the inside. The rubber deteriorates over time
and becomes sticky.
Only way to fix it is to open the drive, dismantle the drive magnet which
controls the movement of the arm on which the read/write heads ride.
Then carefully clean off the gooey rubber gunk and use a good cleaning fluid -
IsoPropyl Alcohol works fine - and remove all traces of the gunk. This take
time as the gunk sticks to everything, including your skin, your clothes and
anything else it comes into contact with. If any gunk touches the driver
platter, it's game over.
I have successfully cleaned a Quantum drive of the gunk and I used a piece of
hose for a car's windshield washer system to make a new bump stop. The drive
works flawlessly. In fact, it didn't work when I first switched on the LCIII in
which it was installed - The wrong System Enabler had been installed. As soon
as I swapped the LC475 enabler for a LCIII enabler, it booted into 7.1 without
issue.
The whole procedure should take place in a clean environment - this guy shows
how to build one cheaply - but given the storage capacity of the drive, the
drive is less likely to crash compared to a modern drive. The magnetized area
is much larger in comparison to a modern drive.
It's a pity that you only got the one go out of it before the sticky problem
stopped it working.
But with a little bit of courage and a few hours, you can make it work again.
Have a can of airduster on hand to keep contaminants to a minimum as you
replace the lid and tighten the screws.
I haven't used mine in a few weeks but I would like to build the clean room box
and give it a thorough cleaning before using it frequently.
Hope this helps,
Keith
From: Wesley Furr <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2017, 22:18
Subject: "Sticky" 80Mb Quantum Drives
Well...Murphy has struck. Someone gave me a Mac Classic II a year or so ago,
and it worked great. But, I pulled it apart, knowing it would need capacitors
replaced. I removed the old ones and cleaned it up, then set it aside.
Finally got around to installing new caps recently, and today I put it back
together and fired it up, worked great. Spent a little time messing with it
and playing a game, then shut it down. Went to fire it back up, and I get the
flashing "?" floppy icon. Crap. Sounds like the drive is spinning up, then
down, then maybe up and down again, but not hearing the chatter of the heads
moving. I didn't look closely and haven't opened it back up, but it looked
like the bottom of a Quantum drive, and I know it was 80Mb. My recollection
from the past is that those drives are famous for allowing the heads to hang up
in the parked position. Aside from pulling the cover and manually releasing
the heads (obviously only good for a last-ditch effort to recover data), has
anyone found or heard of any tricks to bring those drives back to life? Thanks,
Wesley --
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