First post, by ddutra86
Hello Gentlemans, I need some advice from our friends regarding floppy drives.
I have a EPSON action note 866 from 1994 and I'm facing an issue with his internal 3,5 floppy drive (vendor is CITZEN). The one that was sent inside of the computer came without the rubber belt and with a ruined reading head (those damm ebay sellers) so I got another drive from Germany. This one seemed perfect (reading head was like new and a rubber belt was present), but it is still not working (shows a not ready reading drive A). I've attached some videos showing all the movements of the reading head and it really seems all in order, but for some reason the drive does a low level "roar" (sorry, best word that I could find here to describe it) when I insert the floppy and it does not read anything at all.
Everything that I saw related to this defect online points to belt issues, and since I'm not experienced in evaluating it's quality I cannot judge if this is the issue.
My question is: Have you ever found such issue before with 3,5 drives? What the pictures tell to you guys? The laptop is a jewel, and the only thing missing is the funcitional floppy drive.
Cheers!
Moliterno