4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
9:51 a.m.
> Neither did I, for much the same reasons. And I
had to repair quite a
> few that went out of alignment, and some that had released the magic
> smoke when someone plugged the drives in "off by one" after they
> disconnected them to move the machine.
Not that it was a big problem. I still align apple drives by hand (get a
full and known good disk, load locksmith 6.0A and ask to read the disk,
untight the screws of the stepper motor and turn it until it loads
everything ok (no 'inverse As on the screen)). Inverted cables fried the
74LS125 in the analog board :o)