Are you sure it's a 800K floppy drive instead of a 400K one ?
The 800K drives don't suffer from stiction as bad as the 400K drives do. However during the years, probably a large amount of dust has accumulated in the drive and the old grease on the mechanism that holds that floppy disc can harden up so it gets stuck in the end.
Never use force to get a disc out of the drive or you will damage the mechanism beyond repair.
There's only one way to solve this and that it opening up the Mac, take the loading mechanism of the drive apart and clean it.
For instructions has to service the drive, have a look at this topic:
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18790
There can be multiple causes for your problem but without opening the case and disassembling the floppy drive, you won't find it.
It can be dirty sensors, a jammed eject motor,..
A Mac 512K might not be the best option as a first Compact Mac as they are pretty old and need servicing.
A lot of fellow collectors, including myself, have already started with recapping the Analog board of these early Compact Macs as the capacitors are degraded after 25 years.
There' s a lot of usefull info on the forum, however in the end technical knowledge on electronics is required to keep your collection up and running.
Good Luck,
Nico
The 800K drives don't suffer from stiction as bad as the 400K drives do. However during the years, probably a large amount of dust has accumulated in the drive and the old grease on the mechanism that holds that floppy disc can harden up so it gets stuck in the end.
Never use force to get a disc out of the drive or you will damage the mechanism beyond repair.
There's only one way to solve this and that it opening up the Mac, take the loading mechanism of the drive apart and clean it.
For instructions has to service the drive, have a look at this topic:
http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18790
There can be multiple causes for your problem but without opening the case and disassembling the floppy drive, you won't find it.
It can be dirty sensors, a jammed eject motor,..
A Mac 512K might not be the best option as a first Compact Mac as they are pretty old and need servicing.
A lot of fellow collectors, including myself, have already started with recapping the Analog board of these early Compact Macs as the capacitors are degraded after 25 years.
There' s a lot of usefull info on the forum, however in the end technical knowledge on electronics is required to keep your collection up and running.
Good Luck,
Nico