Hi folks,
I took a "new" RK05 disk drive from my heap. After defoaming I powered it up. I
soon realized that
the position sensor's glass had fallen off. Can be glued back in place easily. But
after that I'll
most probably have a misaligned RK05.
I seem to rememebr if you do anything to that position transducer, you
then have to set up the sin and cos waveforms (it's basically doing
repeated seeks of various sizes and looking at signals on a 'scope). The
procedure is in the manual, and you don't need an alignment pack (just a
'scope and some jumper leads from what I remember)
The RK05 manual tells me how easy it is to realign the heads: Just load the alignment
pack and...
-- But I don't have an alignment pack :-(
Does anybody (best would be in Europe) have an RK05 alignment pack I could use?
I have one, but there's no way I am trusting it to the postal 'service'
Is there a known trick to do it without alignment pack? I have working drives and
formatted disks handy.
Hmm... If you have a pack recoded on an aligned drive, you might be able
to :
1 )Move the heads (relative to the carriage) as far back as they will go
2 Load the pack
3) With a 'scope connected to the read amplifer testpoints (as if doing
the alignment with the pack) and the positioner set to cylinder 0, screw
in the appropriate algnment screw. You'll see the singal amplitude rise
as the ehad gets over the data track, and then fall off as you go past it.
4) Repeat that a few times (note : the screw will only move the heads
towards the spindle, unscrewing the screw again will not move the heads)
until you find 2 points, one each side of the track, with the same signal
amplitude
5) By counting turns of the screw, set the ehad midway between those 2 points
6) Clamp up that head, repeat for the other head.
-tony