22 Oct
1999
22 Oct
'99
12:24 p.m.
> I choose
to power it up, and I was able to open the top door. However,
> the FAULT light stays on, i cant lock the cover down anymore, and
> I can remove the disk pack (just lift the handle?). I'm chosing to leave
> the RL01 powered up for a little while, in case the electronics havent
> been powered on for a while, but I doubt that wil fix this problem.
I meant to say i CANT remove the disk pack.
*Oh*. Do you hear a "click" roughly 20 seconds after applying power
to the drive? That's the lid latch solenoid. The "click" means that
you can open it now.
If you hear the "click" but still can't operate the open-cover latch,
this is likely because the long piece of nylon line that connects the
button to the latch is out of whack. (Or just plain broken!)
Can you slide the button back and forth? If you feel *no* resistance,
then the nylon line is probably broken. If you still can't move the sliding
button at all, then the latch mechanism is screwed up. Some previous
fellow may have tried too enthusiastically to move the slide when he
shouldn't have, and bent or notched something out of whack. It's also
possible for the latch mechanism itself, the other end of the nylon string,
is broken/bent.
If you don't hear the click, there may be a power supply or logic
board problem.
In *any* event, if you loosen the four screws holding the plastic
panel on top at the rear of the drive, you can lift up the *entire*
top cover quite handily and see what's going on.