17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
12:42 p.m.
I have MP-F17W-50L
I've tried to use this on a PC (long time ago), and it wouldn't work.
IU assume it therefore has PC-like connectors (34 pin data, 4 pin power).
This is not always the case with old Sony drives, the earlier ones have a
26 pin data connector (along with a normal 4 pin power connecotr), I've
also worked on ones with a 34 pin combined pwoer and data connector.
Is there a visible number -- it'll start with 'FC' on the PCB?
When you say 'it wouldn't work', did it do anything?Would the spindle
motor start? The heads move?
Some of the Sony drives turned at 600 rpm (not the nromal 300 rpm of PC
drives). Having got the right equipment here, I'd stick it on an
excerciser and measure the frequency of the index pulses. But I guess you
don't have the stuff to do that.
-tony