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Macintosh Color Classic - Dead floppy drive

I got a Macintosh Color Classic today. After cleaning and recapping the logic board, everything works fine except of the floppy drive. It’s totally dead and does exactly nothing when inserting a floppy in it except producing a vibrating noise. I have to press the emergency eject to get the floppy out.

I also replaced the drive with a known good one from my SE30 but the replacement also does not work. Same behavior. It does nothing but vibrates.

I already measured all of the wires of the ribbon cable and everything is fine, so it’s not a wiring issue. Also there are no visible broken traces on the logic board.

Has anybody an idea what the issue may be?
 
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