floppy

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).