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 removed the floppy
drive, and it appears the read/write head doesn't have enough pressure to
touch the disk. Could anyone help me with this, or point me towards a
r
you can pull the heads out, and re-adjust the spring tension.
On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:21 PM, 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 removed the floppy
> drive, and it appears t
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
Mat do you happen to know what size torx screws are used on the r/w head?
I have to go out and buy a screwdriver, but I have no idea what size
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. Cle
