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How-to: Fix floppy drives that don't eject or accept disks

Posted by: Dennis Nedry on 2011-05-04 18:37:11 I stumbled upon some old pictures and thought I should add them to the wiki. This is a VERY common problem with auto-inject drives. Follow these steps and your drive(s) will snap the disk right out of you hand, just like brand-new! http://68kmla.org/wiki/Floppy_Drive_Lubrication 🙂

Posted by: olePigeon on 2011-05-06 10:10:18 Oooh! Thanks! I had asked about this a little while ago. I have a few floppy drives in rough shape that I wanted to fix.

Posted by: techknight on 2011-05-08 20:01:45 sony was always the one noted for some consumer level crazy mechanics. especially thier PS3 slot loads.

Posted by: Scott Baret on 2011-05-08 20:16:46 Thanks for the link! I've got a few that need this procedure done!!!

Posted by: Juror22 on 2011-05-29 19:02:46 Thanks for posting this ...I have a Quadra 900 and a Se/30 that both benefitted from this. These were excellent very easy to follow directions that restored my intermittent drives to full functionality in just an hour or so (they were very dirty drives). :beige:

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