Another part in my SE30 journey. I assembled the machine and tested it. A few days ago I cleaned/lubed the floppy drive, a Sony MP-F75W, as per https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LWfjsvc8OA. In the assembled machine the drive worked at first. I could read data and write data, initialize disks an so forth. Out of the blue I no longer can initialize disks. When I want to initialize a disk the formatting starts but when it switches to "verifying ..." there is an error stating that the initialization has failed. Also I cannot copy any data to a known working disk. Reading disks works as before without any issues.
I took it out of the machine and re-cleaned the heads, but this doesn't cure the issue. What went wrong with the floppy drive?
I took it out of the machine and re-cleaned the heads, but this doesn't cure the issue. What went wrong with the floppy drive?