back ontopic: mac 400k drive.

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Mon Jan 26 22:25:31 1998

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
Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 22:25:31 GMT