26 Jan
1998
26 Jan
'98
2:25 p.m.
Super:
I had the EXACT same problem on one I picked up. The external 400 was
sticky. I was going to pull it and replace it with another, but when I
took off the case and played with it, I found out that the lubricant had
begun to age and fall apart. I cleaned it up and it began to work okay.
The disc still reads, correct. I think you can get it going. I also
found that in different positions it worked better than when it was
upright....
-Mike
SUPRDAVE wrote:
part of my new additions last week was a bunch of old mac stuff. i finally got
one of the 400k drives, but its having eject problems. the mechanism was stuck
so now im able to get a disk in, but when i call it to eject, the motor turns,
the disk lifts up to the slot, but wont pop out, then the mechanism goes back
down in position to read the disk. it does the same thing when i use a paper
clip; it will go up, the disk will stay in, then it goes back down into read
position. amazingly, the drive works fine otherwise. i dont quite understand
the mechanicals of it, anyone have ideas?
david