Reconnecting pin 9 has no effect. Ie, it reads but sloooowly. same as before. It might be slighty quicker, but then again it's probably just my impression fueled by my innermost desire to get the lisa alive and kicking

I'll try to redo the images, but since they boot i doubt there's anything wrong with them.

There's nothing on that article about creating floppies that i haven't done. It does however suggest that a mac plus or earlier would be a better choice when creating disk images. I will fire up one of my mac pluses and create the disk there. I have little hope that it will change anything though.