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I don’t think I did, but I did remove the stepper motor assembly for cleaning, following instructions on several YouTube channels

I recently acquired an SE. The floppy wasn’t working, so I got it out and lubed everything and replaced the wet-cardboard eject gear, which had stripped. The drive takes in disks now, but I always get the message “this disk is unreadable by this Macintosh”. I get this same result from any...

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Yes, I also swapped out the SWIM chip. As to altering the head alignment, I don’t think I did. I’ll be repeating the process on the drive to see if I screwed up

The machine is an SE, but I swapped the ROMs and drive from an SE FDHD. When I got the FDHD I used the hard drive and the floppy in my SE, along with the ROM swap. The hard drive booted up but the floppy had issues. I had messages that it wanted to repair my floppies (original System 6 disks)...

Hi all, unlike the usual problem of disks not ejecting, my SE is ejecting floppies as soon as they’re inserted. The drive snaps it in, then instantly ejects it. The screen is displaying the question mark disk icon. Anybody got an idea as to why that might be happening?

I installed a SCSI Blue, which works fine. I'm hunting for one of the brackets which would mount it to the expansion slot in the back of the SE. Until then, it'll have to remain in an exploded state

No luck. I don’t think the motors are getting power

Follow up: I hooked the LED to the drive and tried to power it up. It would not spin up, and the stepper motor didn’t do anything, either. It did flash a 1110 ‘E’ code, basically meaning it couldn’t detect a spin up. I inspected the pcb under magnification but didn’t see anything suspicious. I...

Yup. I was able to rotate the spindle flywheel with no trouble, so I’m assuming the heads are free (or torn off already lol). I’ll probably stick a SCSI Blue in it, but it’s worth playing with the drive to see if it can be made to work

Thanks, this helps a lot. I hadn’t run across this video when I searched

I plugged into power from a pc (the SE is still disassembled) but it wouldn’t spin up. I just wondered if it needs to also be plugged into the SCSI controller to power up

Hello. Dumb question: I picked up a Mac SE recently. At the moment I’m working overhauling the floppy drive, but the Miniscribe 8425SA seems to be stuck. I haven’t tried powering it up in the Mac, since I’ve got it apart. Will plugging it into power on a pc let it spin up (if it can) without...