17 Jan
2015
17 Jan
'15
11:40 a.m.
Sometimes trying different orientations to take up any slack and/or the old
trick of cooling it in the freezer for a little while can make some
unreadable cylinders readable; might be worth a try.
Also, make sure the power supply is up to the task; these things take a lot
of power and I've had intermittent errors when using a slightly inadequate
power supply that cleared up totally with a more substantial one.
Good luck.
m
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gesswein" <djg at pdp8online.com>
To: <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 2:11 PM
Subject: Maxtor XT-2190
Someone was using my MFM reader to read a Maxtor
XT-2190 and was having
problems. From the looks of it the heads are out of alignment. Does
anyone know if this drive has a microstep mode like some Seagates have?
I didn't find any mention in the manuals I could find.
Some heads are mostly unreadable, some heads are mostly ok and some
were unreadable on cylinder 0 and on other cylinders the header says they
are one cylinder less than where it stepped to. Some of the other heads
headers
said the cylinder is what was expected.