11 Jun
2003
11 Jun
'03
8:33 a.m.
I missed the first part of this thread but if you're talking about HP
9121 disk drives then you must be kidding. I've used plenty of these drives
and I've never found one with a damaged head. The 9121 is VERY reliable. I
wish I could say the same for the HP 9122! (And all the other HP drives
that use the same bare drive such as the 9153, 9133 and HP IPC). I've seen
plenty of them with deamaged heads due to the mechanism not lifting all the
way and the top head hitting the disk cartridge.
BTW I've bought loads of these surplus and I don't think I've ever found
a bad one.
Joe
At 07:22 PM 6/10/03 -0700, you wrote:
These drives are notorious for having broken mounts at
the heads. (Best
to open it up and check before popping in a disk) Sometimes they can be
fixed, sometimes not. Often the magnet wires must be resoldered. I
bought six of the dual disk models at surplus and managed to find only
two repairable drives out of all.
-Bryan