1 Dec
1999
1 Dec
'99
3:13 a.m.
In article <m11sZ5u-000IyJC@p850ug1>, Tony Duell
<ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> writes
Or just carefully touch it with the drive in operation (it's not going to
be powerful enough to hurt you..)
The motor doesn't move so plan B
I have taken a known working drive out of a PCW and that doesn't spin up
either. In both cases the LED which looks through the hole in the
middle of the disk comes on and the LED on the front flashes briefly as
the machine tries to access the drive.
I suppose the next step is to check the voltages on the supply. There
are 4 wires 1 red, one orange, and 2 black. Do you know what voltages
are supposed to be on each, and relative to what?
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Regards
Pete
These drives are well-known for suffering from drive
belt problems, which
of course results in the motor spinning but the disk not turning. Could
that be the problem with your drive?
Thanks Tony, I will put a bit of paint on the motor spindle to see if
that is moving. As a point of
interest, are these the same drives which are used in
either the PCW8256 or the PCW9512? IIRC one is single sided and the
other double.
According to the PCW manuals :
The 8256 originally had 1 drive. An FD1, which is single-head 40 track
(flip the disk over by hand). This is the same drive as in the CPCs