UPDATE: Most Common Problem With Floppy Disk Drives

Try a hydraulics shop for o-rings and other seals.

Here in Australia we have a trade shop which supplies repairers with components, and they have an extensive range of circular/square/flat drive belts for audio etc gear. I'm sure there are similar suppliers over your side.

A floppy drive with a belt, and in a laptop? I haven't seen anything but direct drive motors in floppy drives, since the 360K full height

I'm sure I've seen belts in 3.5" laptop drives, but they'd date from a time when the floppy drives were the only storage the laptop had.

Michael

My AcerNote Lite laptops use external floppy drives which have a belt drive.

I suspect it is done to achieve a low profile (although why a low profile matters on an external drive is a mystery).

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I've seen hundreds of 3.5" drives, including the early full height, but never one with a drive belt.

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:57:12 +0000, Michael A. Terrell Has Frothed:

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The floppy drive in a Roland S-10 sampling keyboard also has a belt.

For belts, I have been lucky here. Menu on left side: Belts

Splork wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Where is 'here'? I don't see any menu on the left side of my screen. I am using xnews to read the sci.electonics.repair newsgroup.

I am guessing that you are using google groups or some other way of reading news groups, but you need to keep in minds that many others are not doing so and are not seeing the ads that you are seeing.

There are no URLs in his message. He must have forgot to paste them in.

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net:

I had a Toshiba Satellite 100 (I think). It was a PI-75, with a 540 MB HDD. Its floppy drive spindle was belt driven from a DC-PM motor.I think though, the slightly newert Laptop I have has a direct drive floppy.