Johnnya101
Well-known member
My Quadra 700 was having some difficulty reading disks. The disk would be kind of "sticky" when being inserted. I removed the drive and checked it out (Note, it has been lubed before), and I think it must just have been installed wrong in the case, because it works great manually. I popped off the gear cover to check them out, yup, a lot of dried goo there. I broke the little gear when trying to remove it, so I put in an old spare I had. I may have moved the blue potentiometer just a tiny hair (Dont know what it does...? Surely it cant be too too sensitive). I had another old floppy drive I looked to for guidance it realigning gears. Got it spot on...
I put the floppy drive in, removed the hard drive (So I can see if it will spit out disks okay without having to get everything set up). Insert a disk, and it tries to read (Its a non system disk, so good), ejects. But not quite. Now it just kind of lifts the disk like its about to eject, and makes a weird noise. I got a paperclip and ejected it, inserted the disk again. Now when it tries to eject it whines. I quickly shut it off.
??? Whats going on here? Did I really just trash a floppy drive by replacing the gear? (Well, of course not, ive done this before, just kind of confused now...)
I put the floppy drive in, removed the hard drive (So I can see if it will spit out disks okay without having to get everything set up). Insert a disk, and it tries to read (Its a non system disk, so good), ejects. But not quite. Now it just kind of lifts the disk like its about to eject, and makes a weird noise. I got a paperclip and ejected it, inserted the disk again. Now when it tries to eject it whines. I quickly shut it off.
??? Whats going on here? Did I really just trash a floppy drive by replacing the gear? (Well, of course not, ive done this before, just kind of confused now...)