hitherescotty
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Hi folks.
I reassembled my SE after retr0brighting it and noticed the 2mb floppy drive wasn’t accepting disks or ejecting properly. A disk got stuck on the way out. I could hear it making normal drive noises though. I realized I had not installed it 100% correctly and it was sitting a bit high. I reseated it, hooked everything up and it then just did NOTHING. No sound, nothing. I assumed I’d connected the ribbon cable poorly. Disconnected and reconnected and now it’s just buzzing non stop and doing nothing useful. Won’t read or write or eject. Nothing I do stops the buzzing. I have tried manually ejecting, reseating cable, etc. many many times.
I removed the drive from its mounting bracket and examined while on to see the buzzing is coming from the Omron eject motor. But I cannot figure out what to do. Ideas?
I have twice damaged floppy drives on other machines while trying to clean them. Don’t want that to happen here … I am considering just ordering a replacement on eBay.
I reassembled my SE after retr0brighting it and noticed the 2mb floppy drive wasn’t accepting disks or ejecting properly. A disk got stuck on the way out. I could hear it making normal drive noises though. I realized I had not installed it 100% correctly and it was sitting a bit high. I reseated it, hooked everything up and it then just did NOTHING. No sound, nothing. I assumed I’d connected the ribbon cable poorly. Disconnected and reconnected and now it’s just buzzing non stop and doing nothing useful. Won’t read or write or eject. Nothing I do stops the buzzing. I have tried manually ejecting, reseating cable, etc. many many times.
I removed the drive from its mounting bracket and examined while on to see the buzzing is coming from the Omron eject motor. But I cannot figure out what to do. Ideas?
I have twice damaged floppy drives on other machines while trying to clean them. Don’t want that to happen here … I am considering just ordering a replacement on eBay.