I have some old floppies that I find and they are not in the best shape. I
have had this happen at least twice, so I am writing here to get some
advice.
When I try to test out these floppies, sometimes I put one in my IIci that
starts making a high pitched squealing noise as it spins the disk and
0:42 AM
Subject: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
I have some old floppies that I find and they are not in the best shape. I
have had this happen at least twice, so I am writing here to get some advice.
When I try to test out these floppies, sometimes I put one in my IIci that
starts making
uot; drive and made several
> copies.
>
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> *From:* TT
> *To:* vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:42 AM
> *Subject:* Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
>
> I have some old floppies that I find a
d made several
>> copies.
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> From: TT
>> To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:42 AM
>> Subject: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
>>
>> I have some old floppies that I
;good" drive and made several
>> copies.
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> ----------
>> *From:* TT
>> *To:* vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:42 AM
>> *Subject:* Floppy Drive Issues with O
; the disk's contents to the machine with the "good" drive and made several
>>> copies.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> --
>>> *From:* TT
>>> *To:* vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
>>> *
floppy was pressed into a
stiff drive too hard, or the head couldn't move down out of the way on inject
or eject.
Jeff Garrison
From: TT
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disk
That should say LED.
JSG
From: J.S. Garrison
To: "vintage-macs@googlegroups.com"
Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
When a cleaning won't make a drive read for me, I get a small LCD fl
say LED.
>
> JSG
>
> --
> *From:* J.S. Garrison
> *To:* "vintage-macs@googlegroups.com"
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:11 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: Floppy Drive Issues with Old Disks
>
> When a cleaning won't make a
Touching the heads, even lightly, is never a good idea.
The heads are pre-aligned by bent pieces of metal, unlike the old 5.25"
drives which had springs. This means that touching them moves them out of a
rather narrow working range. Bringing them back into alignment requires an
oscilloscope a
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jordan Utolia wrote:
> Touching the heads, even lightly, is never a good idea.
>
> The heads are pre-aligned by bent pieces of metal, unlike the old 5.25"
> drives which had springs. This means that touching them moves them out of a
> rather narrow working range.
Don't bother. The drive will have to be replaced.
I know because I did the same exact thing you did. Drive was working, I
wiped the heads so lightly it wouldn't hurt the most delicate flower.
Stopped working promptly afterwards. The same amount of pressure you need
to clean the heads is the s
Did you disassemble the drive?
In my case it already wasn't working, so I don't know if it was wrecked by
the disk before trying to clean it. Maybe excessive friction ruined the
alignment?
Is there any way to fix it? I don't want to junk it =(
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Jordan Utolia wrot
Just an update, I tried a floppy again and it was able to show the contents
in the disk, but it was giving me errors when I tried opening stuff. I
don't know if that makes any difference in the diagnosis.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:36 PM, TT wrote:
> Did you disassemble the drive?
>
> In my case
For curiosity's sake, do you know what this "arcane knowledge" is? I'm
assuming if you had two identical drives (one that worked and one that
didn't) you could just record the output (with your oscilloscope) of
reading a good disk on the working drive and then hook the oscilloscope up
to the ot
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