First post, by Hezus
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I've got an IBM model 30 (8086) with a 720kb 3.5" floppy drive (dfl413c04a). I've seen the drive work once, but since it has not been reading any disks. So I took it apart and cleaned it, but I've hit a roadblock and I'm here for some help.
So, the head seems to read just fine, because It can determine that floppies are not bootable. But as soon as I insert a bootable disk it'll keep reading it forever. I've tried real DD floppies from the early 90's but that doesn't seem to make any difference. What does seem to be the problem is that the head is not moving forward to read the rest of the disk. I've cleaned the guiding rail and I was able to manually turn it to move the head further. When the machine initialises the drive the head moves back and forth on it own, so that's means the gears are working. But, as mentoined, it doesn't do that when a disk is inserted.
Anyone has any idea how to fix this?
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