Hi,
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... :-(
Err, 'No it's not worked sinde the crash' or 'No, the heads can't have
been damaged'
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.
OK, I think the only way forwards is to stop guessing and start making
measurements.
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...
Oh, right. I know that problem well. Rubber rollers seem to like turnig
to this sort of goo...
I have seen an oiled damepr in some floppy drives (MPI IIRC), and I
wondered if this swas something similar.
-tony