On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 8:08:50 AM UTC-6, Pizzaboy192 wrote: > > It appears my Mac Classic internal floppy drive has perished (don't blame > it from it sitting outside for years). I would like to replace it so I can > use this system again. > > Often the mechanism on these old drives lock up because the lubricant turns to varnish. If you cannot insert a disk because the mechanism does not accept it (things don't go sprung in the right places) try removing the drive and clean all the sliding metal parts on the two sides with alcohol until the old residue is removed. Stay away from teh head mechanism inside the drive. People have bent things messing with those. Oh, you can touch them if you know what you're doing, just don't go after them wihtout finding some good explicit instructions first.
Second, if you try to install a manual-inject drive instead of the older auto-inject drive, I'm pretty sure you need to change the floppy cable, otherwise the drive will go into a mode where it constantly ejects. I may be misremembering, but there was an issue wtih floppy cables with red stripes and floppy cables with yellow stripes. Jeff Walther -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
