On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:25:45 +0100 Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 31, 2004, at 10:07 pm, Jim Foster wrote: > > As for drives which seem to have a hard time ejecting diskettes [...] > > 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. Thanks, I'll try that. > > [...] 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'm with you, Mark. It may not seem economical in the short term, but I don't like throwing out something that just has one bad part. Someday it will catch up with us (both the waste and the lack of parts). BTW, when I went to test Jim's idea of an alignment problem on one of my problem drives, and I was surprised when it seemed to read a freshly formatted disk from another system. But then when I tried to reformat the disk on that drive, the formatting failed. That seems to indicate that it's having trouble writing too. :-( Is it possible to get replacement RW heads for these drives, if that is the problem? (Probably not cheaply.) -- Michael -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
