My first find ever (Mac SE)..!

[brlawyer]

Rescue My Classic was a member of this forum (Krye) but has not been active for a while, never used his floppy services...

Tks - I just ordered a set of four 800k System 6 floppies from him; hopefully it will arrive home without problems; then I can try to make the CD 300e work as well..!

 

[brlawyer]

Tks - I just ordered a set of four 800k System 6 floppies from him; hopefully it will arrive home without problems; then I can try to make the CD 300e work as well..!

Dear All,

I've just received my System 6 floppies, but it seems like the drive can't accept them (always spitting them out with the X or ? sign)...what would be my next step here? Open the Mac SE and check the drive itself?

 

[beachycove]

You could see if servicing the drive solves the problem: https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_Drive_Lubrication

 

[rsolberg]

This page in the wiki might be of help: https://wiki.68kmla.org/Floppy_Drive_Lubrication

EDIT: beachycove beat me to it!

 

[Scott Squires]

Additionally, you should clean the heads with alcohol on a cotton swab. Be extremely careful not to lift the head any further than the mechanism lifts it. If you do, it will never be able to close far enough to read a disk again.

 

[brlawyer]

Additionally, you should clean the heads with alcohol on a cotton swab. Be extremely careful not to lift the head any further than the mechanism lifts it. If you do, it will never be able to close far enough to read a disk again.

Tks - what I still do not understand is: if the drive is really bad, how can it still perform X/?/ejection actions?

 

[bibilit]

if the drive is really bad, how can it still perform X/?/ejection actions?

The head is responsible for reading the disk, if the head is dirty or faulty, won't be able to read the system and will split the disk and will perform the X message.