Hello!
Recently, I found the little gear in my Macintosh SE's (800k) floppy drive broke and I set out to replace it. Upon receiving the replacement gears from Shapeways yesterday, I installed the new one without issue. I then buttoned the floppy drive back up, and it seemed to work. Upon putting the SE back together, the floppy drive would not respond. I took the SE back apart and was able to get the floppy to respond and eject but it would not recognize a disk any longer. Not knowing where things went wrong, I took apart the floppy drive and greased it up and cleaned the head despite the mechanisms working just fine. That was no help.
I then decided to try the Floppy Emu as that would eliminate the possibility of something being wrong with my SE's logic board. It worked just fine for a while, but upon the second reboot it refused to work and only showed the power light lit. Don't know what happened there, especially considering the FloppyEmu now won't work with my 512k either.
Anyone have any ideas? Am I dealing with a faulty IWM chip? Would there be any reason my Floppy Emu would stop working after using it in the SE?
Thanks for any help that can be provided.
Recently, I found the little gear in my Macintosh SE's (800k) floppy drive broke and I set out to replace it. Upon receiving the replacement gears from Shapeways yesterday, I installed the new one without issue. I then buttoned the floppy drive back up, and it seemed to work. Upon putting the SE back together, the floppy drive would not respond. I took the SE back apart and was able to get the floppy to respond and eject but it would not recognize a disk any longer. Not knowing where things went wrong, I took apart the floppy drive and greased it up and cleaned the head despite the mechanisms working just fine. That was no help.
I then decided to try the Floppy Emu as that would eliminate the possibility of something being wrong with my SE's logic board. It worked just fine for a while, but upon the second reboot it refused to work and only showed the power light lit. Don't know what happened there, especially considering the FloppyEmu now won't work with my 512k either.
Anyone have any ideas? Am I dealing with a faulty IWM chip? Would there be any reason my Floppy Emu would stop working after using it in the SE?
Thanks for any help that can be provided.
