Well...Murphy has struck. Someone gave me a Mac Classic II a year or so ago, and it worked great. But, I pulled it apart, knowing it would need capacitors replaced. I removed the old ones and cleaned it up, then set it aside. Finally got around to installing new caps recently, and today I put it back together and fired it up, worked great. Spent a little time messing with it and playing a game, then shut it down. Went to fire it back up, and I get the flashing "?" floppy icon. Crap. Sounds like the drive is spinning up, then down, then maybe up and down again, but not hearing the chatter of the heads moving. I didn't look closely and haven't opened it back up, but it looked like the bottom of a Quantum drive, and I know it was 80Mb. My recollection from the past is that those drives are famous for allowing the heads to hang up in the parked position. Aside from pulling the cover and manually releasing the heads (obviously only good for a last-ditch effort to recover data), has anyone found or heard of any tricks to bring those drives back to life? Thanks, Wesley
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