PB 1400 CD & Floppy Drive won't work

We gave our granddaughter my wife's Powerbook 1400CS which she used for about 6 months. She brought it back because the CD and floppy drives will no longer work. Even if I open the drive with a paperclip and insert a CD it will not be recognized – same for a floppy. I got a serial cable and in target mode did a clean install of 8.6 but still the drives won't work. Does anyone know why?

Larry
The HDD in the PB 1400 is ATA Bus 0, and the CD-ROM is ATA Bus 4. (See ASP/Devices.) The FDD is well, the floppy drive. It is at least worth while for you to check that it is not drive faults that you are dealing with, but some other, since mass but selective failure of the buses seems unlikely.
If the PB's AC adapter is functional, it may still happen that the 'backup' battery (or batteries if it is an 'extended' 1400) has not recovered from depletion at some recent time. PRAM and Power Manager may be feeling poorly enough not to remember what they should and what is where. If you boot the PB, and then remove first the AC adapter and then the main battery, you should get up to 2min of remaining life from a good backup battery. If you get instant shutdown, you can fairly guess that the backup didn't. The backup(s) begin to charge only when the main is fully charged. What is the state of charge of the main in the Control Strip? If it shows full, leave the PB on the adapter for 24-48hr to make sure of the charge on the backup. Otherwise, set the main to charge (with the PB off), and add 24-48hr more after the main shows full charge.
Then start up with a traditional PRAM-zap. The PB will shut down in response, and can be restarted with the reset switch between the serial and ADB ports. Then you can validly sleep-swap the CD-ROM and FDD to check their function. Is it possible that they have been swapped while the PB was not off or asleep?
System installation in target disk mode via the HDI-30 port does not work because PB-specific software does not get installed. It is conceivable that a serial port installation will also not work, again because the PB is not identified to the host machine as a PB.

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