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| Floppy not working in SE/30 - but working in other machine? |
Posted by: jimbojones on 2020-11-19 15:28:32
I have two SE/30s and recently tried the floppy drive in one and found it throwing up the "This disk is unreadable" error, and then fails to initalise any disks I have.
I took the drive out, re-greased the metal and cleaned the heads with IPA, but no luck. I then took the floppy from my other SE/30 and swapped it in. Still no luck, so I tried the "broken" drive in the other SE/30 and it works fine! They are both Sony 2MB drives (looks like one is Rev2 and the other Rev3).
I have some Classic's as well. Any one know if their drives will work in an SE? I tried the SE drive on a Power Mac and the eject function went a bit crazy 🙂
Anything obvious I can try to get this working? The machine hasn't been recapped yet, but has been cleaned. It works fine except for faint audio.
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Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-11-19 15:53:25
It is possible that the Bournes filters have gone bad. If you have a copy of The Dead Mac Scrolls, there is a tutorial on how to ascertain what might be the issue.
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Posted by: jimbojones on 2020-11-19 16:00:00
Good shout. I'll take a look. Thanks!
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Posted by: Juror22 on 2020-11-19 16:41:34
While checking parts, make sure that the floppy drive cable is correct and undamaged. If it has a problem, it would account for the results, and is easy to check.
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Posted by: dochilli on 2020-11-20 00:20:54
I do not know, if it matters, but the SE/30 had somtimes a 800KB drive when it was upgraded from a SE. The floppy cable had a yellow cable at one side. I have one of those upgraded versions. The 1.44 MB floppy cable had a red cable. Perhaps you have the wrong cable in the SE/30? Please correct me, if the cable color has no influence on the function.
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Posted by: jimbojones on 2020-11-20 06:41:00
I tried a load more disks and it seems I was just testing initially with a couple of dodgy disks. Both drives are working fine now, thanks to everyone who helped!
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