Recent content by petey293

Thanks! Will do. I went ahead and picked up an external 400k drive that I plan on migrating to the 128k so I can get it up and running, then I can take my time and dink around with the bad one

I think if I need to ask, I probably know the answer, but I want to make sure. This 400k floppy drive had the following issues: The drive was stuck in the down position The felt pad was missing from the pressure arm The head looks like this: From these clues, I'm guessing someone tried...

Hey all! I'm looking at picking up a Macintosh Plus (RAM upgraded to 4Mb), and have absolutely no experience with these older machines. Just wanted to ask a couple questions to those that are familiar with them: I won't have an external disk drive to go with it (may go the scsi2sd or Floppy...

I installed the Pioneer drivers and it's now reading disks. You guys rock! Unfortunately the tray sits a bit too high and isn't lined up with the slot in the Performa case, so I'll just have to use it in the external enclosure for now. Thanks again for the help! I was able to use the drivers...

Huh, interesting! The unit is a Pioneer DR-US124X. I thought it was a bit weird that there was no apple branding on it whatsoever. Now that you say this, I'm almost certain it was a replacement. I noticed that the ID select on the back of the external drive did not match up with the ID listed by...

Thanks for the ideas! For some reason I hadn't thought of taking the drive out of the enclosure and putting in the computer, duh! I tried it but unfortunately it acted basically the same as it did before. I got it to appear on the SCSI bus, but it couldn't read anything. I tried it on the same...

Hi guys! I'm a noob, tried a bit of googling and searching without much luck. Apologies if there's already a thread that solves my issue! I recently got a performa 577 with a bad internal CD drive, I was also given an external AppleCD 600e that I wanted to try to hook up so I could play larger...