16 Dec
2001
16 Dec
'01
4:24 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Ah, yes, this is the same symptom in mine. I guess when I head back to
the Familial Lodge (parents' house), I must bring down my 128D. I miss it
so.
- Dan
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Dan Linder / dlinder @ uiuc.edu
Graduate Student, College of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science
- Dept. of Computer Science Teaching Assistant
- DRES Computer Accessibility Researcher
Now, when I
bring it back out - for someone w/o a whole lot of experience
with working on disk drives - what's a good approach for getting it back
up to snuff. (I currently have no o-scope or other 'fancy' test gear, so
I'm looking for the basics here...)
If you mean failure to get the disk drive to read disks initially, 1571s
sometimes like to have the disk 'tapped in' once or twice, i.e., insert the
disk, close the door and then tap the disk in a couple times. Occasionally
the 1571 fails to note the change of disk. I now have a habit of this with
my 128D.