2 Nov
2010
2 Nov
'10
12:33 p.m.
> More seriously, what model of Shugart8"
drive? Are there not manuals for
> them on bitsavers?
They probably are, that's a good point. I
don't know yet; I have yet
to yank them to find out. I'm going to try to dig out the machine this
week. I want to make sure I clean the heads and so forth correctly and
Most disk drive service manauls specifically warn against cleaning the
heads with a cotton bud or foam swap soaked in propan-2-ol and insist you
use the cleaning disk. I am not sure why. I've never damaged or
misaligned a head by clenaing it by hand.
In genral head cleaning is easy -- remove the drive from the machine,
possibly remove the logic PCB and/or a protective cover so you can see
the heads and then clean them as above. While you're in there, clean any
optival sensorts (indesx, track 0, write protect), maybe clean the spidle
cone and the slide rails the head carriage runs on,
do all the alignment, etc. to make sure
everything's in shape before I
Do you have the 8" alignmet disk? If not, while there are ways to get the
alignment fairly close using a normal disk formatted on a known-good
drive, it's probably better not to adjust anythi9ng unless yoy have to.
shove these disks in there, just in case
something's off/corroded/etc.
and I end up with a pile of ferrous shavings instead of data. ;)
You could make sure it doesn't chew up a blank disk first.
-tony