15 Jan
2005
15 Jan
'05
1:06 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 9:53 PM
Qume drive
working, but don't know where to go next. I
guess I could swap
the boards between the two units, but that'll
only tell me if it is
electronic or electro-mechanical.
Other than that, any suggestions for figuring out if it is
alignment, broken
sensor, or something electrical?
The alignment adjustments, in general, are what are known as
'interchangeability adjustments'. In other words, if they're
a bit off,
the drive will be able to format, read, and write its own disks, but
those disks will not be useable on other drives, and vice versa.
So what you do first is to hook the drive up as B: and try
formatting a
blank disk in it. Note that if, for some reason, the machine
thinks it
only has one drive, it'll map A: _and_ B: to that drive.
You'll get some
obvious messages if this has happened, in which case the problem is
certainly not just alignment. This sounds like track0 sensor problems. I assume
you've
blown the dust
out of the sensor? If you have a multimeter and logic probe,
I'll dig out
the schematic and tell you what to look for.
Yes, I have blown the dust out of the sensors. See above. How do these
drives signal that they are DS? That seems to be where the error is coming
in. Any tips based on the schematic would be of help. Since all I have at
the moment is a DMM and a homemade logic probe, my tools are lacking to
fully solve this problem.
Thanks again,
Kelly
Kelly