Hey all,
Recently got an 8500 for 25 bucks shipped on ebay. It came with a 300MHz G3 upgrade, ~384MB ram. I put 8.6 on it, and it's working beautifully.
Unfortunately, It seems as if there is something wrong with the floppy drive in this machine. It can format a floppy and (seemingly) write to one. It can also sometimes read them - most of the time though, it fails to read the disk, or will corrupt a disk upon write.
It also has a broken CD bezel, but I've heard that they are rather hard to find these days.
Any ideas on the floppy drive? Could it somehow be cleaned or adjusted? Also, what's the opinion of OS 9 on this machine?
Thanks!
Blake.
Recently got an 8500 for 25 bucks shipped on ebay. It came with a 300MHz G3 upgrade, ~384MB ram. I put 8.6 on it, and it's working beautifully.
Unfortunately, It seems as if there is something wrong with the floppy drive in this machine. It can format a floppy and (seemingly) write to one. It can also sometimes read them - most of the time though, it fails to read the disk, or will corrupt a disk upon write.
It also has a broken CD bezel, but I've heard that they are rather hard to find these days.
Any ideas on the floppy drive? Could it somehow be cleaned or adjusted? Also, what's the opinion of OS 9 on this machine?
Thanks!
Blake.