I have had good luck cleaning the heads on these, depending on how it died of course. If it's just plain not reading disks anymore, use 90% alcohol and a cotton swab and gently swab both heads.
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:47:51AM -0500, Michael Needham wrote: > Hello All > > This post is slightly off topic, but please bear with me on it as it will > be clear why I posted on this list. > > I have an Apple II gs that is among my Macs and last night One of my Apple > 3.5 disk drives died on me. When I opened it up to investigate, I found > the drive is a Sony like those in earlier Macs.* It even has the same > connector. > > This is an 880k drive and I am hoping to find a replacement for it. It is > not the full auto variety but it does have motorized eject. > > Firstly, I would like to confirm that the drive is the model I think it > is. Then I would be interested in obtaining a replacement. > > For the latter, please contact me off list. > > Thanks for any help. > > Mike Needham in Kansas > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at [1]http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at [2]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 > [3]http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: [4]http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > References > > Visible links > 1. http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml > 2. http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > 3. http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > 4. http://lowendmac.com/services/ > WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-FkcXIs/pkcs11: No > such file or directory -- Ryan C. Underwood runderwo(at)mail.win.org -- ----- 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/
