9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
6:20 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
This sounds (!) like it's not detecting track 0
correctly, it's just
banging the head into the end stop.
My first thought is to clean the track 0 sensor (has it got dust in the
gap), then sit down with the drive and test gear and debug the circuitry.
I'm starting from ground zero. Where *is* the track 0 sensor? (a hard thing
to describe without pictures, I know... sorry)
No, it's a standard half-height 360K floppy drive.
IIRC the original was
a Qumetrack or something, which has a bad reputation.
I've had three go out on me in a decade... come to think of it, I've only had 4
floppy drives die on me in a decade, so that indeed makes the Qumetrack the
worst in my experience :-/
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