Recent content by kallisti5

Here's a before on a random floppy disk: T78.0: Writing Track (Flux: 200.0ms period, 220.0 ms total, Terminate at index) T78.1: Writing Track (Flux: 200.0ms period, 220.0 ms total, Terminate at index) T78.1: Writing Track (Verify Failure: Retry #1) T78.1: Writing Track (Verify Failure: Retry...

So, I can't find this process documented anywhere, so I wanted to post it here. I have a *big* box of 3.5" bad / crudely magnet wiped floppy disks. None of them have been functional, and writes always fail. I've figured out a process to bring these floppy disks back to life. Note: We are...

Also, just so nobody does the dumb thing I did to bend the head in the first place, here's a handy diagram.

I just received the lot of MP-F73W-01D disc drives from ebay, and can confirm the drive heads look identical to the ones in the much, much rarer Apple-specific auto-inject drives (MP-F75W-01G)🎉 It's going to be a few weeks until I have the time to try swapping a pair into my MP-F75W-01G, but...

Ha! I think I actually just fixed it. Did a little more bending of the heads with the drive out of the Classic and finally got the drive to read a floppy disk. I'm still not sure if it's aligned properly, so might still replace the heads with the potential donor drives I bought. Given the...

I just finished restoring my Macintosh Classic (new caps, retrobrite case). It's working perfectly minus one thing... the floppy drive. While cleaning it, I didn't realize how little upward force it took on the heads to "bend" the spring steel to permanently deform it. I tried the "inserting...