The floppy drive on my Quadra 700 was extremely stiff to inject/eject, such that the eject motor was stalling while trying to eject and I had to assist it with a paperclip in the hole.
I took it apart and cleaned and lubed the mechanism and it worked ok very briefly before the infamous gear stripped it's teeth.
I bought a couple of new 3d printed gears off of ebay and installed one of them, and that all appears to be working fine, however now whenever I insert a disk it will read it for a second, but before it mounts the finder background disappears and everything locks up forcing a hard reboot. If I try and boot from a floppy it will show the happy mac for a few seconds and then reboot.
Anyone have any ideas what might be up with it?
I took it apart and cleaned and lubed the mechanism and it worked ok very briefly before the infamous gear stripped it's teeth.
I bought a couple of new 3d printed gears off of ebay and installed one of them, and that all appears to be working fine, however now whenever I insert a disk it will read it for a second, but before it mounts the finder background disappears and everything locks up forcing a hard reboot. If I try and boot from a floppy it will show the happy mac for a few seconds and then reboot.
Anyone have any ideas what might be up with it?
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