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Hey everyone, I’ve repaired a lot of Apple hardware over the years (PowerBooks, iBooks, iMacs, Intel Macs, etc.). Over the last couple of months I’ve been doing at least one repair per week, even if it’s just something minor, so I’m usually not afraid of taking things apart. That said, I’ve...

I have two Greaseweazles, a v4.0 and v1 (the one based on an STM32 "Blue Pill") Both have been working flawless for a while now except for recently. The one I used internally in my main Linux system (USB 2.0 header to port, short micro cable, PCB in a printed enclosure) has recently run into a...

Hello! A few weeks ago I posted here and i was able to fix all the problems I got (link here). Last week I went and started playing around the floppy drive (i had it appart while fixing the computer itself). Tried inserting a floppy with the 6.8.1 and it just didn't read and couldn't even eject...

Dear tinkerers, I have a Powerbook 170 in good condition that has some boot issues. It used to boot from the internal scsi hard drive, but that has since stopped working. I would like to create a Boot floppy for the powerbook. I have a usb floppy drive that reads 1.44mb disks, and a macintosh...

The document provides a description of the “track 0” misalignment issue that plagues vintage floppy disk drives and suggests a simple procedure for fixing it. Applicable to all Mac floppy drives (400k, 800k, 1.4M).