I'm installing 8.1 right now.
The floppy drive was a bust - I cleaned it thoroughly, made sure the read heads weren't damaged and still contacting both sides of the disk, oiled the mechanical pieces and made absolutely sure that all the mechanics are working.
Any time I put a disk in the drive, OS 8 tells me it needs to be initialized. If I click to do so, it ejects the disk immediately and says that there was a problem. A few times I've gotten it to get almost done initializing, and it fails at the very end.
Formatted floppies that I know for a fact have good content on them (verified with my SE/30) also show up as uninitialized. This has happened with two floppy drives and two cables. My next shot is going to be to use the SE/30's floppy, since at the moment that machine is dead (something crapped out in the horizontal sync circuitry).
Is there a floppy controller on the system board? If so, where is it? I want to make sure there's nothing wrong on that end of things.
The floppy drive was a bust - I cleaned it thoroughly, made sure the read heads weren't damaged and still contacting both sides of the disk, oiled the mechanical pieces and made absolutely sure that all the mechanics are working.
Any time I put a disk in the drive, OS 8 tells me it needs to be initialized. If I click to do so, it ejects the disk immediately and says that there was a problem. A few times I've gotten it to get almost done initializing, and it fails at the very end.
Formatted floppies that I know for a fact have good content on them (verified with my SE/30) also show up as uninitialized. This has happened with two floppy drives and two cables. My next shot is going to be to use the SE/30's floppy, since at the moment that machine is dead (something crapped out in the horizontal sync circuitry).
Is there a floppy controller on the system board? If so, where is it? I want to make sure there's nothing wrong on that end of things.