Thanks for those tips. It does accept a floppy and attempts to read it, but all attempts to do anything to the disc fail. I haven't had a chance to floppy-ectomy the unit yet to inspect it up close but we'll see what my lunch break at work looks like today. I've verified the Disc is OK in the only Windows box I have with a floppy and it seems to successfully read and write those discs (Although even the Windows box struggled with the only floppy I could initially find. Maybe I should try a new in box disc)
I'm upset at past me for scrapping a pile of old computers including a few LCII units. I know I probably still have a few floppy drives and HDDs around somewhere, but it's been years since I had any beige mac units so my memory of where everything went is a bit foggy. On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 3:32 PM Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- I blog, therefore I am... I think. http://pizzaboy192.com/blog/ -- -- ----- 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 [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
