6200 CD-ROM

[SE30_Neal]

Hi all,

got my performa up and running a few problems though, the floppy doesn’t seem to line up well with the hole on the front, is it easy to re seat it? and secondly the CD-ROM kind of tried to do something but didn’t actually spin up, i’ve not taken it apart yet but thought it maybe a drive belt issue, anyone else had similar issue? Luckily i have an external scsi CD-ROM for my se/30  so did a fresh os8 install via that but would like to get it working in the performa if i can.

any assistance would be greatful 

neal

 

[Papichulo]

Just find a new cd drive for it online. Or try cleaning it

 

[Franklinstein]

The floppy drive is on a carrier that slots into the chassis and is then held in place by the hard drive cover plate. You can try removing the hard drive cover plate and checking to see if the floppy drive carrier is correctly seated. I think the floppy drive's mounting holes are ovaled so you can probably make small adjustments by loosening those, depending on what sort of misalignment you're experiencing.

If you haven't removed the faceplate on that computer before, it's not easy: it's held on with two plastic clips in the lower half and tabs along the top, all of which are really fragile by now. Don't exert too much force on the clips.

As for the CDROM, it's likely a Matsushita 4x unit. These have a tendency to stop reading, or even recognizing that they have, any disks inserted. The problem can sometimes be remedied by opening the drive and making small adjustments to the potentiometer on the optical block, but this is fiddly trial-and-error stuff and it's best to have an external power supply for testing to see if you got it right. While you're in there, some drives have gear-driven tray loading while others use belts. If you've got the belt variety, you may as well replace that while you're in there before it causes problems.