On May 31, 2004, at 10:07 pm, Jim Foster wrote:
As for drives which seem to have a hard time ejecting diskettes, they sometimes come around by a thorough blowing out of dust
Best idea is to clean them thoroughly an remove the grease from the mechanism and re-oil/grease them with sewing machine oil or light silicon grease. The original grease used on them hardens up after about a decade and ceases the mechanism in a lot of cases. I've had drives lock solid on me that way.
but by and large my practice when faced with a diskette drive that is not working properly has been to replace it with a unit I picked up on eBay. I have cultivated at least one relationship with an eBay vendor I trust and I find it more practical to just fork over a few bucks knowing he will stand behind his stuff than to spend hours trying to repair my own units.
Perhaps you don't have a lot of spare time, in which case fair enough, but remember there is only a finite supply of old style auto-inject drive units. I repair any I can and keep them on standby as I have had a few totally die on me as you described - just can't manage to read or write anymore. I had one in an SE/30 and one in a IIci both drop out last year.
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