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| Macintosh SE/30 floppy drive |
Posted by: megabyte on 2017-03-14 14:52:15
Hi.
Around one month ago SE/30 worked perfectly.
Two weeks ago I purchased some floppies with old software at ebay. I tried to copy/install software from they but all of them contains disk errors.
Afters this I tried to copy files from my MacBook Pro to SE/30 via USB FDD. MacBook formatted and recorded floppies without any problem (FAT12), but when I tried to read them on SE/30 I got a disk errors.
Today I repeated this and SE/30 shows that floppy disk has 500 kb free - that is right, because I writed almost 1 mb on it. But there is no files on the disk!
Should I replace FDD in SE/30?
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Posted by: hunter44102 on 2017-03-14 17:58:21
does your SE/30 have original capacitors or have they been replaced? is there a way to clean the reading head with alcohol?
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Posted by: avadondragon on 2017-03-15 12:43:01
It may be a silly question but do you have the PC Exchange control panel installed on the SE/30?
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Posted by: megabyte on 2017-03-15 14:52:25
It may be a silly question but do you have the PC Exchange control panel installed on the SE/30? Yes, because:
1) it worked perfectly before
2) Mac OS show this floppy by using "PC" icon
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Posted by: megabyte on 2017-03-16 14:03:58
does your SE/30 have original capacitors or have they been replaced? is there a way to clean the reading head with alcohol? I opened Mac today and saw a leaked electrolytic glue around the capacitors. So I will try to clean motherboard by first.
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