+Torrax Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Five of the six 360K drives in my TI systems are not working from disuse. I've been using emulation and the CF7/NanoPEB over the last 9 years. Tried to fire up my Geneve, P-Box, and CCMESS three days ago and only found one working drive. Is there an article or decent web page on how to disassemble a floppy drive and refurbish it. My offending drives are 4 Panasonic JU-455-5 and an Olivetti. The working one is a Fujitsu. I would like to get started on this in the beginning of the new year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 Five of the six 360K drives in my TI systems are not working from disuse. I've been using emulation and the CF7/NanoPEB over the last 9 years. Tried to fire up my Geneve, P-Box, and CCMESS three days ago and only found one working drive. Is there an article or decent web page on how to disassemble a floppy drive and refurbish it. My offending drives are 4 Panasonic JU-455-5 and an Olivetti. The working one is a Fujitsu. I would like to get started on this in the beginning of the new year.Probably but what I find is if you clean and lubricate the rails they start working againSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 like @arcadeshopper said, the rails pretty often are the failure point. Were you getting errors, or are they just plain not working? This page seems like it has some good info on floppy drives, too. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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