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Post #11 by dcr
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 3 Sep 2015 - 00:25
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macintosh-se-troubleshooting.2510/
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To clarify, the floppy drive was able to eject disks until I cleaned and lubricated it which may mean I did something to cause that particular problem, but I cannot figure out what, since everything looks right and works properly if I manually work it.

At any rate, I finally had the time to sit down and give DragonKid's suggestion a try.  First, I booted up the Mac Plus to make sure its floppy drive worked and, more importantly, to make sure the boot floppy worked.  It did.  So, I removed the floppy from the Mac Plus and put it in the Mac SE.  With that floppy drive, the SE booted fine.  And I confirmed it has 4 MB RAM so yay! for that.

Which means the SE's floppy drive is the problematic one.  Are there any other things to try with it?  I went through cleaning and lubrication process described in the wiki, so if that doesn't work, is it basically dead?

Or do I just need to track down a working (hopefully) 800k floppy drive on eBay?  (I know a 1.44 MB floppy drive will work and I'll consider that as a last resort; I'd just prefer an actual 800k floppy drive to be more authentic.)

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