You need to take the floppy drive out, clean it and re-lube it. There's lots of sliding parts that need a coating of a fairly thick grease that will stay put and not run off. Also, the eject motor should come off so its gearbox can be cleaned and re-lubed.
You can see where the grease is on the drive. A cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol works for cleaning. The ideal stuff these days is silicone grease. It's way more heat resistant than the original and will never dry out. A toothpick works well to apply new grease. Manually operate the mechanism so you can get grease into and under everywhere it needs to be. They tended to be a bit over greased originally. Once you get the floppy drive mechanicals back in order, get Mt. Everything on a boot floppy and see if it can get the external SCSI hard drive mounted on the desktop. It's likely to have any driver init/extension or control panel needed by the drive. Might even have a formatting utility on it. Won't know unless you can get it to work. Hard drives contemporary with the Mac Plus had to be formatted with a 3:1 interleave. Newer drives with onboard cache RAM can be formatted to the standard 1:1 interleave. AFAIK, Apple never released a utility capable of changing the interleave. You were supposed to buy drives from Apple, already formatted for the Plus. (Same for the SE which needed a 2:1 interleave on cacheless drives.) The aftermarket stepped up and produced formatting utilities with 3:1 and 2:1 interleave settings, but right now I don't know where to find such old software. I do recall the early versions of SCSI Director had that capability. If the drive is dead, you should be able to install a different SCSI drive in the case. If the hard drive connects to the external floppy port, then it's a different story. -- ----- 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/
