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| Mac SE FDHD floppy drive constant buzzing |
Posted by: hitherescotty on 2022-06-28 04:43:57
Hi folks.
I reassembled my SE after retr0brighting it and noticed the 2mb floppy drive wasn’t accepting disks or ejecting properly. A disk got stuck on the way out. I could hear it making normal drive noises though. I realized I had not installed it 100% correctly and it was sitting a bit high. I reseated it, hooked everything up and it then just did NOTHING. No sound, nothing. I assumed I’d connected the ribbon cable poorly. Disconnected and reconnected and now it’s just buzzing non stop and doing nothing useful. Won’t read or write or eject. Nothing I do stops the buzzing. I have tried manually ejecting, reseating cable, etc. many many times.
I removed the drive from its mounting bracket and examined while on to see the buzzing is coming from the Omron eject motor. But I cannot figure out what to do. Ideas?
I have twice damaged floppy drives on other machines while trying to clean them. Don’t want that to happen here … I am considering just ordering a replacement on eBay. |
Posted by: CC_333 on 2022-06-29 13:48:30
I removed the drive from its mounting bracket and examined while on to see the buzzing is coming from the Omron eject motor. But I cannot figure out what to do. Ideas? Maybe someone who knows better can chime in, but it sounds to me like maybe the main drive gear stripped out, which is a very common problem. New replacements exist, and can be installed relatively easily.
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Posted by: volvo242gt on 2022-06-29 17:13:08
@maceffects sells replacement eject gears. Ones made in Japan that work very well. |
Posted by: Johnnya101 on 2022-06-29 17:48:02
Third on broken gear. The originals are made to break. The replacements, not so much... But oh well. |
Posted by: dochilli on 2022-06-30 00:25:44
In this video you can see the gear (around 20 min).
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