Recent content by darvil

Hello! Here goes an update after a long while; I was able to find a MP-F75W-11G on eBay for cheap. It was quite rusty but luckily the head was intact but I didn't even think it twice to buy it to test for luck... Did the replacement of the head and... It works perfectly! It is able to read and...

Hello again! It has been a while since I wrote this, but I am happy to say I was able to fix it. I replaced the rest of the capacitors on the logic board and that didn't seem to fully fix it. I realized that sometimes the vertical deflection collapsed occasionally, among other logic errors like...

That is really interesting. I'll keep taking a look around then. Also I'm noting those links down. Thanks!

Hello! Recently I tried to turn on my Mac SE30 and got hit with a bad surprise... Monitor failing to turn on, raster of horizontal lines, and other errors. Took the board apart, and found this VLSI VC2982-0002 chip with a crack: It may be hard to see, but there's definitely a crack (you can...

Hello, after investigating a bit further, I have found out here that three floppy drive models seem to be perfectly interchangeable. Those being: MP-F75W-01G (Mine) MP-F75W-11G MP-F75W-12G This information may help on finding broken drives :) Seems like the 11G model seems to be a bit more...

Update here! :) As expected, that was a failure. There's still some hope, though; I may try Lumines' suggestion of using copper tape, after I get some. Thanks again for the help! If in the end I'm not able to get it working, that is fine. I'm getting a BlueSCSI in a few days, and I'm very...

For now I will attempt to bridge the gap between the two pieces of ribbon cable with some copper wires and some good hand pulse. Hopes aren't very high though! But it's worth trying. Yeah, it seems to be a model MP-F75W-01G, or at least that's what it says on the sticker at the bottom. (On top...

Hello all, recently I got my hands on a beautiful Mac SE/30, and I've been giving some maintenance to it. Unfortunately the floppy drive didn't seem to work. After looking at it, i found out that the ribbon cable of the bottom head was broken, as seen in this image: I was wondering if anyone...