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IIsi don't recognize floppy disk

Submitted by piggington on February 10, 2008 - 3:42pm. Hardware Repair Help

My old Mac IIsi floppy drive was full of dust and it could not read any floppies. I replaced it with another drive (cradle 805-5050-A, no markings in drive itself, it looks like SONY MP-F75W). For some reason it cannot read 1.44 MB disks and it formats blank disks to 880K capacity.

I know that 805-5050-A parts were used in some other Mac IIs, but I assumed that drives are interchangable.

Any tips how to proceed?

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Do you have another drive you

Submitted by themike on February 10, 2008 - 10:34pm.

Do you have another drive you could try? It sounds like maybe the one you've tried is an 800k drive.

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Got it working

Submitted by piggington on February 11, 2008 - 1:59pm.

I carefully cleaned the dust from old drive and now it's up and running.

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