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Problematic Macintosh 512K 800K Disk Drive

SilverStreaks

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I bought a Macintosh 512K that came upgraded with the newer disk drive and ROM chips. I'm able to boot just fine off of the external 400k drive. However, the internal drive is problematic. Out of the many time's I've tried to boot, it only worked twice, the second being kind of glitchy. Otherwise, I either get an x or a happy mac, and then the disk promptly ejects. I am also unable to successfully format any disks. The drive head moves all the way down, and then fails and ejects about halfway back. This happens with both 400k and 800k formatting. The resulting disks are unable to be read by my 3400c, which on the other hand is able to read disks otherwise formatted by the external drive. I have already cleaned the drive heads, so I don't believe that's the issue. The disks themselves seem fine and reliable as well.

Any ideas?
 
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