Thanks, Elfen. I'm pleased with the result. It's nice not to worry about what all that capacitor goo is doing to the motherboard, especially given the corrosion I was already seeing evidence of.
In regards to the system installation, I don't think it's to do with the floppy drives themselves, because the problem persists when using the Floppy Emu, which uses its own cable as well. Unless there's something going wrong with the Floppy controller on both motherboards, but that seems unlikely. Also, all other floppies work just fine. But system floppies (I have three software versions - 7.0.1, 7.5.3, 7.6 - on disk) ALL display this issue on both the Performa and LC. But it's intermittent. It always happens at different stages of the install. For instance, I have tried installing a minimum system about five time. On the sixth, it finally went long enough to get the system on there. When I try to install extra features, it's the same problem all over again.
So, I'm really at a loss on this one. Of course your suggestion is sound. As the LC 475 finally has a minimum installation, I suppose it's less important that I put the the HDD into the LC III for the install. I'm also getting a new IDE HDD from max1zzz that has a full 7.5 installation on it.
It's more just the principle. What if I want to upgrade the HDD in the 475 for instance (right now it has my old 80MB drive from the LC III)? Will I always be faced with these issues? So yeah, finding the root cause would be great! =)
In regards to the system installation, I don't think it's to do with the floppy drives themselves, because the problem persists when using the Floppy Emu, which uses its own cable as well. Unless there's something going wrong with the Floppy controller on both motherboards, but that seems unlikely. Also, all other floppies work just fine. But system floppies (I have three software versions - 7.0.1, 7.5.3, 7.6 - on disk) ALL display this issue on both the Performa and LC. But it's intermittent. It always happens at different stages of the install. For instance, I have tried installing a minimum system about five time. On the sixth, it finally went long enough to get the system on there. When I try to install extra features, it's the same problem all over again.
So, I'm really at a loss on this one. Of course your suggestion is sound. As the LC 475 finally has a minimum installation, I suppose it's less important that I put the the HDD into the LC III for the install. I'm also getting a new IDE HDD from max1zzz that has a full 7.5 installation on it.
It's more just the principle. What if I want to upgrade the HDD in the 475 for instance (right now it has my old 80MB drive from the LC III)? Will I always be faced with these issues? So yeah, finding the root cause would be great! =)