Lots of times the switches on the front sides of the drive that detect whether: - a floppy is in there/ a floppy is write protected / a floppy is a High Density (1.44MB) disk - Gum up and give your Mac false readings. My advice would be to take out the drive, and give it a good clean with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol. Use plenty as it will evaporate anyway.
Just make sure you be careful around the read and write heads.
Also, greasing it would not be to weird of an idea either, remove the old grease and apply tiny dabs of something like sewing machine oils.
This all worked magic on all my disk drives that had problem (and nearly all of them had problems
)
Just make sure you be careful around the read and write heads.
Also, greasing it would not be to weird of an idea either, remove the old grease and apply tiny dabs of something like sewing machine oils.
This all worked magic on all my disk drives that had problem (and nearly all of them had problems
)