26 Jan
1998
26 Jan
'98
2:39 p.m.
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?
I've run into several drives with that
problem. Clean out the eject
mechanism(the moving metal parts on the left side, maybe the right side too
I don't remember) with something(what are they called? q-tips? the little
cardboard sticks with cotton on the end), and then spray a LITTLE bit of
WD-40 or household oil along the eject mechanism. I use WD-40 because I
usually have it sitting around. Make sure you don't get it on the head or
soak it too much...
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/