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| Mac 512ke auto ejecting |
Posted by: ehdjej38389 on 2023-06-08 14:52:12
Ive replaced the gear on it and it does this with the 5 floppys ive tried |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-06-08 15:23:36
Is this the original drive and/or floppy cable to the machine? |
Posted by: volvo242gt on 2023-06-08 16:17:18
If it's a red label drive, make sure you're using a cable with a yellow stripe. If it's black, then it uses the red stripe cable.
That said, it sounds like you need to adjust the zero track sensor to get the drive to read a disk. When you do this, place something between the drive's board and the chassis, since you'll likely fry the eject motor circuit if the board touches the chassis. BTDT when testing out my old Plus and getting it to read disks. |
Posted by: ehdjej38389 on 2023-06-08 16:24:50
Is this the original drive and/or floppy cable to the machine? Ive put a new eject motor and gear box on it and the cable is 3m which is what came withtthe 512ke |
Posted by: ehdjej38389 on 2023-06-09 03:36:45
If it's a red label drive, make sure you're using a cable with a yellow stripe. If it's black, then it uses the red stripe cable.
That said, it sounds like you need to adjust the zero track sensor to get the drive to read a disk. When you do this, place something between the drive's board and the chassis, since you'll likely fry the eject motor circuit if the board touches the chassis. BTDT when testing out my old Plus and getting it to read disks. The red cable worked before this is a 800k drive i just replaced the gear box and the stepper motor from another drive so probably not the cable and is there a certain way to adjust the zero track sensor ive never done that |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2023-06-09 04:48:08
Stepper motor…you mean the motor that drives the read-write head? Almost certain you probably inadvertently threw the alignment off. Look up Larry Pinas Dead Mac Scrolls online and it has an adjustment procedure. |
Posted by: ehdjej38389 on 2023-06-09 11:14:11
Stepper motor…you mean the motor that drives the read-write head? Almost certain you probably inadvertently threw the alignment off. Look up Larry Pinas Dead Mac Scrolls online and it has an adjustment procedure. Yea the head motor idk where i saw someone saying so i figured thats what it was actually called but ill look into this and see how it goes |
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