2 Apr
2010
2 Apr
'10
7:38 a.m.
Hi,
OK... Alas I suspect this is not going to be a quick fix. I've nearly
completely decided to "quick-fix" it by giving away.
Best wishes and thanks for the comments,
Philipp
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http://www.hachti.de
I assuem it has worked since the crash. Could the heads have been damaged
by the crash?
Eh.... NO :-( Sorry for being unclear on that... :-(
Hang on.. Are you saing the heads landed on the disk? And that the drive
hasn't worked properly since that? I really wonder if the heads have been
damaged.
Yes, I'm saying that. But the problem with those packs was there before. I had only
one or two
really good packs. And now I have not one really perfectly working one.
It *can* have to do with the heads. But I can imagine other issues as well.
But there are differences. I don't think there's any oil-filled damper on
the Phoenix.
Nothing oil-filled! It WAS a ring of rubber-like clear stuff. That has
converted to something like
the glue children use at the kindergarten...
Do you have schematics and a 'scope?
Yes.
But... Sorry for saying that: That machine has a very very low
priority in my project queue as it's something from the 80s. I currently