17 Sep
2011
17 Sep
'11
12:50 p.m.
I have tried that several times and can't find
anything except a strange red
plastic plug which comes out very easily.
Isn;t this actually a Maxtor drive? If it's anything like the dead one
I've just pulled out of the junk box, there are screws under the label
(and also a red plastic breaterh plug, which you cna leave0.
The drive I found (an XT1140 IIRC) has 12 screws aroudn the edges of the
cover which take a TX8 driver and 2 screws under the label which take a
TX10 driver. One of the later is over the spindle, the other over the
pivot for the head arms. The latter was _very_ tight and took a lot of
shifting!
For those who are interested, it's a voice coil positioner (what a
suprise) operating a swinging arm assembly carryign the heads. There's
aslo a hed locking solenoid. On the flexipring to the heads are 4 custom
ICs which look to be 2 pairs of indentical ones,. Obviously head
preamplifiers and maybe write drivers too.
-tony