Inserting Floppy Disk into LC II

[twillkickers]

On Macintosh computers with a thin disc slot (such as the LC II,) do disks need to be inserted in a special way? There seems to be no way for me to insert the disc fully into the drive without using a second disk as a kind of ram to seat the disc fully in the drive. Is there something wrong with my disc drive that I could fix; or is this just the status quo with these older Macintosh machines? Thanks for your input!

 

[just.in.time]

That probably means that the drive needs to be cleaned and lubricated.  Definitely not normal operation.

Luckily, it's a fairly straight forward and simple process.  See this site's wiki regarding it:

https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_drive_lubrication

Just be careful not to bend the drive heads back too far during disassembly, this kills the drive.

 

[sstaylor]

I wonder if maybe the auto-inject drive got replaced with a later non-inject variety.

I guess cleaning is still the first step.

 

[Juror22]

With an LC, also be sure that the case is aligned correctly, so that the disk is not binding on the case.  It seems to be pretty easy to misalign the front, when putting the top case back on, especially if the front clips are worn or damaged.

 

[twillkickers]

That probably means that the drive needs to be cleaned and lubricated.  Definitely not normal operation.

Luckily, it's a fairly straight forward and simple process.  See this site's wiki regarding it:

https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_drive_lubrication

Just be careful not to bend the drive heads back too far during disassembly, this kills the drive.

I've opened up my drive, and it looks a lot different than the drive shown in the wiki. See the below photo of my drive:




Is this drive the auto-inject type? Is there a tutorial for cleaning this type of drive?

Thanks!

 

[Johnnya101]

Saying I dont have permission to view image??

But from what it looks... I myself have no idea. Def not stock (As you know)... Im pretty sure all those lcs and SEs and such used the same drive.

 

[just.in.time]

That is weird. I've worked on several 800k and 1.44 mb drives and all of them looked like the drive used in the guide.

Not sure what to do.

 

[twillkickers]

Saying I dont have permission to view image??

But from what it looks... I myself have no idea. Def not stock (As you know)... Im pretty sure all those lcs and SEs and such used the same drive.

The photo should be view-able now. I had my permissions set to private and now I've changed them to public. Feel free to take a look and tell me what you think!

 

[bibilit]

Not the usual usual drive for sure...

 

[Johnnya101]

What's it say on the bottom? Can you find a model number?

It's not even any drive used in any old apples... I don't think anyways.

 

[olePigeon]

That doesn't look like the stock floppy drive from an LC.

 

[techknight]

thats a manual inject drive. 

Someone MAY have stuck a manual inject drive where an auto inject drive should have resided. 

You know if your LC is designed to use a manual inject drive by the type of top cover is on it. If it has a middle half-circle cutout on the top and bottom of the center of the floppy hole (looks like a kiss) it is for a manual-inject 

if its just a slot with no hole for your finger to grab the disk or push disk in (slit not a kiss) then its for auto-inject.