Do you have any disks with an operating system on them? Mac OS 6.08, 7.0,
7.1, etc should work. Do you have another Mac to make system disks with?
http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html
You can find disk images of OS 6.0.8 at the above link in 800K format. You
will need diskcopy 6.3.3 to convert the images to disk.
TZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe lobocki" <jlobocki at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: know where I can get a 800k drive for a mac SE?
see, its not a matter of not going in or coming out,
it does that fine,
but
when i put the floppy in, it barely reads, and a second later spits it
right
back out and gives me the X disk icon. what exactly does the floppy need
to
be a bootable system disk?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com>
wrote:
> joe lobocki wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> anybody know where I can get an 800k drive for my mac SE? mine seems to
>> have
>> quit working. thanks
>> -Joe
>>
>>
>>
> I'd try to repair it first... see:
>
http://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hw-floppy_lube.html
>
> There probably are other instructions on the web as well. Note that the
> above is for 400K floppies, which should be very similar, but be aware
> that
> the stuff about "felt" on the top of the drive arm isn't going to apply
> as
> you'd have a real read/write head there instead. :-)
>