Re: floppy head monitor runs continously .. anyone got a spare?

2003-10-16 Thread James MacPhail
Hi Tom, >> I wonder, could I just use my SE's floppy in the Lisa? >Yes you can, BUT You have to do some soldering work >with the 1,44 super-drive Interesting! Please post your instructions so we can all have them (unless they are very long or need pictures). With this modification: - do

Re: floppy head monitor runs continously .. anyone got a spare?

2003-10-16 Thread Scharpf Thomas
Hi Stephen, if you have an original floppy built in in your Lisa, then it has to be a SONY Model OA-D34V the electronic in that drive has a sensor, which recognizes when the head is at the end-position (near the step-motor for the head) but no sensor at the front-position (near the step-motor for

Re: floppy head monitor runs continously .. anyone got a spare?

2003-10-15 Thread Marshall Henderson
I don't have a spare but I've had the same thing happen to me a time or two. In both cases, I believe it was after I tried to lubricate the mech on the side of the drive. It would continuously "eject" a non-existent disk over and over. It seems like I somehow "dried" the oil off of one and it b

floppy head monitor runs continously .. anyone got a spare?

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen M. Jones
> Does the motor spin up, when you insert a floppy or push the little stick in > the floppy on the right side, which recognizes an inserted disk? > The error you described, could be caused by a faulty I/O Board (resp. a > faulty Lisa Light Adapter, depending on your Lisa modell) or by the drive > i