400k external drive

[thekhakinator]

I have a problem with a 400k external Apple drive. I can put a disk in and gently push it down to seat properly (drive obviously needs a clean), the drive will read the disk, and then eject. The disk still shows up on the desktop and I can load files (asks me to reinsert) and once the file is loaded the disk ejects again. Huh!?!?!?

I found it interesting - plugged into my SE, it detected I had put in a double sided disk and asked if I was sure I wanted to initialise it.

It always successfully ejects first time but sometimes keeps running the eject mechanism 5 times...

 

[bibilit]

SE 800k or 1.4 M (SE FDHD)

The 400k will probably need a good servicing, never had to work on any but IIRC also auto-inject, so should seat on it's own.

 

[olePigeon]

Probably just needs new grease to make the inject thingy work smoothly.  It may be still suck and thinks it needs to eject the floppy.

 

[thekhakinator]

Cheers for the tips, I'll open it up and give it a good service.

Yeah, plugged into my 800K SE. Thought it was cool that it could detect an 800K disk in a 400K drive and avoid you inadvertently formatting it.