8 Jan
2009
8 Jan
'09
2:19 a.m.
dwight elvey wrote:
Thanks for the advice. After a few hours' fiddling I've got the drive
reading/writing reliably. Now to find some 400k images of mac software
that'll run on a 128k :).
Thanks!
Josh
From: derschjo
at mail.msu.edu
Got myself an ancient external 400k mac floppy drive on the cheap that
I'd like to use on my 128k mac -- after cleaning out the old dried
lubricant and getting the drive mechanism running again, the drive works
but will only read/write disks that it has formatted, which leads me to
believe that the drive is out of alignment. How is alignment corrected
on these drives?
Thanks!
Josh
Hi
Like any other drive, you need an alignment disk for a 400k drive.
That would be a tough one.
You can always just experiment some. Before moving the stepper,
make sure the track zero is in the right place. After a recal,
measure the distance the head is from the spindle. It should be
close to the same for both drives.
If the track zero is right, try the stepper next.
Dwight