17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
6:38 a.m.
On 10/16/2012 08:05 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
From: Fred Jan Kraan<fjkraan at xs4all.nl>
If you're at the point of taking the drives out, you can trip the drive
release mechanism "internally" with a finger to get the disk to release.
Well, unless you have incredibly weedy fingers, I suppose :-)
Then dismantle the eject mech, clean, re-grease and reassemble. (I think
Tony's cautioned in the past against dismantling the head assembly /
positioner, which is certainly sound advice, but thankfully there's no need
to do that just to get at the eject assembly).
cheers
Jules
you put in a disk, you get a cursor, but that`s
it. Puter won`t give
disk back. Do I have to take it apart?
The SD-321 drives have a lock mechanism that should release the disk
when the button is in the 'out' position. But it doesn't as the old
grease keeps the lock in place. I have observed this with both the QX10
and the TF-20 which both use the 1/3 height SD-321 disk drives. So far I
managed to get my disks back by prying the lock upwards (or was it
downwards?) with my fingers (not very pleasant work). Everytime I plan
to fix the drive by replacing the gunked grease, but so far it didn't
happen.
Greetings& success,
Fred Jan
C: for arguments sake (and in the event the stuck disk is expendable),
couldn't you remove the drive and soak it w/isopropyl alcohol or
something? To wash away the old grease?