8 Aug
2012
8 Aug
'12
1:55 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Indeed, that's the one. I posted about it here about 10 years ago and
details of it and the 1400 itself can be found in the list archives. I
would post links to photos of the drive, but the listserv previously
"disappeared" any emails I've sent that contained links to my webserver so
I can't do that right now.
The drive itself has previously been opened, and it wouldn't surprise me
at all if someone else previously had problems with the head lock
solenoid. From what I've read and was told, this is an extremely common
problem with Vertex drives.
The real
challenge with my 1400 I think will be the hard drive. I pretty
much put my 1400 project aside when I discovered that the V170 hard
drive's head lock solenoid was stuck because I just don't have the means to
service the drive (oddly enough, the drive shows signs of previous service
work).
Isd this a Vertex V170, a 5.25" wincheser? I know the V150 from my
PERQs, evil little things that have various problems.
If it is similar to the drive I am thinking of, the lock solenoid is
inside the HDA :-(. I asusme you've checked it's getting a voltage
across it, and that it's not open-circuit (although what you could do if
it was is not obvious). I think you're going to need to make one of those
'clean boxes' that get
menitoend here from time to time.
That's pretty much where I left things with the 1400. I don't have a clean
box and I'm not sure when I'll have the funds (or really even the space)
to assemble one. I very much do need to recover the drive itself though
because the software it contains isn't replaceable due to how scarce these
machines are.