On 6/13/14, 4:08 PM, BigClaim via Vintage Macs wrote:
I wish to thank the several people that responded with really great advice
on how to deal with my AOL dial up modem problem.
Several very helpful suggestions were made and while I am going to follow
up on a lot of what was offered, the one
On 14 Jun, 2014, at 10:43 am, Charles Lenington wrote:
> If I remember correctly.. I don't think the add on usb card for the 7300
> will work w/ 2.0 usb. Make sure that drive will drop back to rev 1.4.
Falling back to older/slower versions of USB is a requirement of the USB spec.
A floppy
On 6/14/2014 2:44 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
On 14 Jun, 2014, at 10:43 am, Charles Lenington wrote:
If I remember correctly.. I don't think the add on usb card for the 7300
will work w/ 2.0 usb. Make sure that drive will drop back to rev 1.4.
Falling back to older/slower versions of USB
Wouldn't that cause the heads to be out of alignment afterward? Would I
need to align it?
On Friday, June 13, 2014 8:21:51 PM UTC-4, Thomas Mendiola wrote:
>
> I recently purchased a Mac Classic II, and the floppy drive wasn't
> working. Cleaned the heads, etc, but it still didn't work. I rem
lol no.
There is a sensor that tells the drive were the head is.
Charles
On Jun 14, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Thomas Mendiola wrote:
> Wouldn't that cause the heads to be out of alignment afterward? Would I need
> to align it?
>
> On Friday, June 13, 2014 8:21:51 PM UTC-4, Thomas Mendiola wrote
Thomas,
I have also encountered this problem and it is not impossible to fix but it can
be very time-consuming.
The RW spring mounts on which the Read Write heads are fitted - it's like a
tiny gimbal - can be distorted easily. The spring mounts that press the head
brackets on to the disk when
A trick that can be done with floppy drives is to rotate the stepper
motor enough so the drive writes tracks between where they're supposed
to be.
Then you can format the disk in a properly adjusted drive and in the
purposely mis-adjusted one - with two different formats.
Fun for weirding pe
