Ok, it's time for some feed-back!
I finally went further with cleaning those drives, since I recently got a nice Apple ][ Europlus and I needed the IIgs to be working in order to format some ProDOS 5.25'' floppies for it. Well I took both my 3.5'' drives apart, and manged to clean them the best I could with isopropyl alcohol and WD-40. I happily soon saw drive two working again, but sadly I must have broken something in drive one. I then tried two spare bare drives I had lying around untested from a dead Plus and a dead 512K (water damage in a school a long time ago), with no luck for one of them, but the other one works fine!
So my IIgs flies again. Thanks to all of you guys! If you don't mind, I'll continue this thread with other newbie questions.
And already the next question: there was a fan badly taped inside my IIgs, on the expansion slots holes. The tape went off with tape, and now that fan is lying on the mobo. According to pictures of the IIgs innards I found on the net, stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Can I safely remove it? Or otherwise where is the best place to tape it/screw it back?
I finally went further with cleaning those drives, since I recently got a nice Apple ][ Europlus and I needed the IIgs to be working in order to format some ProDOS 5.25'' floppies for it. Well I took both my 3.5'' drives apart, and manged to clean them the best I could with isopropyl alcohol and WD-40. I happily soon saw drive two working again, but sadly I must have broken something in drive one. I then tried two spare bare drives I had lying around untested from a dead Plus and a dead 512K (water damage in a school a long time ago), with no luck for one of them, but the other one works fine!
So my IIgs flies again. Thanks to all of you guys! If you don't mind, I'll continue this thread with other newbie questions.
And already the next question: there was a fan badly taped inside my IIgs, on the expansion slots holes. The tape went off with tape, and now that fan is lying on the mobo. According to pictures of the IIgs innards I found on the net, stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Can I safely remove it? Or otherwise where is the best place to tape it/screw it back?