Re: Apple 5.25 Drive

[Matt Ackeret <unknown@apple.com>]

In article <kb84138@pro-storm.cts.com> Jason Addison,
mustang@pro-storm.cts.com writes:
>I have the apple 5.25 drive (the platinum one) and I recently, ahem,
>dropped it on a tile floor.  It is now impossible to even stick a disk
into
>the drive.  Has this happened to anyone's drive before?  Any ideas on how
>to fix it?  (If it requires repair, I may just buy an older drive...)  If

I don't know how the 5.25" drive is constructed, but I had a similar
problem 
with an Apple 3.5" drive a few years ago.  I thought I had completely
ruined the 
drive, and at the time I was too paranoid to open up the drive myself.

It ended up that the inside metal framework was bent a little bit which
made getting
a disk into/out of the drive very difficult.. My solution was simply to
take one of those
3.5" plastic "travelling" disks and stick it half way in teh drive and
wiggle/jam it side
to side to bend the interior framework back.

Try to see if something like this is causing your problem.. You might
have to actually
open the drive, since on my 3.5" drive, I couldn't see from the outside
that it was simply
a physical blockage of the path.