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    Test Mac Plus floppy drive while external?

    It went well enough. I was able to see that one noise was the disk spinning (thought that's what it was but was nice to get visual confirmation). The other noise I thought might be related to the eject having trouble but I can see that the eject motor isn't getting triggered. I pulled the...
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    Test Mac Plus floppy drive while external?

    In trying to sort out issues with the Mac Plus floppy drive, I was thinking it would be great if I could actually see what's going on in the drive. So I pulled the floppy drive and have it sitting outside the Plus. I haven't plugged it in yet as I wanted to get some feedback first in case this...
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    SCSI termination and internal/external drives

    I'll see if I can locate my source but I recall recently doing some research on the Mac Plus and external drive I dug out of my closet. I read that the Plus _requires_ a terminator on the SCSI connected eternal drive but later Macs didn't actually require it. I'm still trying to locate the one...
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    Mac Plus - floppy drive or bigger issue?

    I dug a Mac Plus out of the closet but the floppy drive wasn't reading a disk or ejecting for me. I disassembled the floppy drive for a clean & lub but got exactly the same behavior after I put it back in. I'll spare you a description of the noises it makes but post the link to a short vid...
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