Thank you all for the advice! It'll be the weekend before I'm able to take it apart to that extent, but I'll keep you posted.
Sarah On 27 December 2011 03:42, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett ~*~*~*~LET'S GO CANES!~*~*~*~ -- ----- 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/
