BadGoldEagle
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It "works" but not well. Files will get corrupted after some time (that's what I've heard, but I've tried it a couple of months ago and the disk still works fine...). You need to cover the extra hole though... scotch tape does the job rather well.
And now, here's a funny story about one of my SEs that might interest you... Don't know why I didn't think of that before.
I plugged in a dodgy looking floppy drive for testing. This machine was working fine before I did that. The drive showed no sign of life. I promptly removed it and put the Mac back together, along with its known good FDD. The day after, I realised the Mac wouldn't accept any disks, it kept ejecting them. So far, it had the same symptoms as yours.
The Floppy EMU would throw some error code... I remember contacting BMOW about it and he told me that the SWIM could be bad (It was an FDHD, so no IWM).
So, I removed the chip and installed one of my known good ones from a 1/20 I had lying around (The SE 1/20 basically an FDHD equipped with 1meg of memory and a 20mb drive). It fixed it. Yay!
Just out of curiosity, I decided to put the old one back. Switched my SE on, and oddly enough, it was reading disks fine!! How did it fix itself? I guess the board and the chip were stuck in a loop for some reason, the new chip wasn't and managed to reset the floppy state.
That's definitely odd. And it was properly inserted too, I took it out and put it back in back in fourth 3 times in total before using a "new" chip, and before I introduced it to the new SWIM it wouldn't work.
=> You should try that, but obviously, you need another IWM... You could buy another SE on Craigslist (make sure it's not an FDHD or a Superdrive), do what you have to do with it, remove the battery and perhaps sell it back for a profit?
And now, here's a funny story about one of my SEs that might interest you... Don't know why I didn't think of that before.
I plugged in a dodgy looking floppy drive for testing. This machine was working fine before I did that. The drive showed no sign of life. I promptly removed it and put the Mac back together, along with its known good FDD. The day after, I realised the Mac wouldn't accept any disks, it kept ejecting them. So far, it had the same symptoms as yours.
The Floppy EMU would throw some error code... I remember contacting BMOW about it and he told me that the SWIM could be bad (It was an FDHD, so no IWM).
So, I removed the chip and installed one of my known good ones from a 1/20 I had lying around (The SE 1/20 basically an FDHD equipped with 1meg of memory and a 20mb drive). It fixed it. Yay!
Just out of curiosity, I decided to put the old one back. Switched my SE on, and oddly enough, it was reading disks fine!! How did it fix itself? I guess the board and the chip were stuck in a loop for some reason, the new chip wasn't and managed to reset the floppy state.
That's definitely odd. And it was properly inserted too, I took it out and put it back in back in fourth 3 times in total before using a "new" chip, and before I introduced it to the new SWIM it wouldn't work.
=> You should try that, but obviously, you need another IWM... You could buy another SE on Craigslist (make sure it's not an FDHD or a Superdrive), do what you have to do with it, remove the battery and perhaps sell it back for a profit?