Re: Question mac drive

[W Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

chucksmith@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> I have a mac IIcx the floppy drive didn't work the head was shot.I took the
> head out of an apple IIgs 800kb drive and put in the mac 1.44mb drive but it
> didn't work I think the motor was shot in the mac drive. So I put the head
> back in the apple drive and put the circuit board form the mac drive on the
> apple also had to use the upper carriage part of the mac drive to line up
> with all three switches apple drive only has two.It works but it won't format
> 1.44mb disk it will read and write them ok also read, writes and formats
> 800kb ok.My question is it because of the 800kb head that it won't format
> 1.44mb disk or something else.Also both drives are sony.
>

Having just taken a glance at a few drives I noted that on the plastic part of
the head assembly all 800 k drives have the same # while all 1.44 drives
have a different #. So I'd guess that exchanging heads may solve your
problem. That's about the only electronic part left to change over anyways.

    Wayne