> I suspect the Read/Write Board. So I ordered
modern monolithic
> replacements for the remaining old mono chips from Digikey, and
> shotgunned all the old electrolytics etc for good measure, in two
> places electrolytics replaced with tantalums (didn't have
> ..82uF's).
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Allison wrote:
I hope they are not in any timing circuits. Another
way to
really shoot ones foot is change all logic and any analog
stuff or worse digital used as analog. Newer or older parts
often will behave different and at 10mhz that was high speed
then. There be serpents and devils lurking there.
No timing caps at all. Nearly all the caps were bypass. A few were
DC-blocking. I did replace a lot of .01uF bypass caps with .1uF
caps. All of the analog DC-blocking caps were replaced with same
value, same type. A few bypass electrolytics were replaced with
tantalums of larger value.
> Formats, reads OK, then errors again! Sheesh!
System has been on
This tells me you've not looked at the cause only
apparent problems
that may not be relevent.
Agreed. It does seem to get worse as it gets warmer (cooling is
all fine though) but I think this is a distraction.
OK, the drive uses the same CART as a DEC RL01/02 and
the base design
is a CDC creation if memory serves. DEC nor DG designed the beast.
Hmm, I thought this was of DG design... this is the "double
density" drive, 10+10, not 5+5... if it's the same as RL01/02 I'd
be very happy!!
There are two things to pay attention to. Servo amps
for the
positioner they are analog and can drift. They must be set up
at TEMP. If I remember that varient of the drive also had
embedded servo information for the head position controls.
Hmm... I only glanced at the servo design, but it's got the usual
diffaction grating plus feedback from the sector headers, I think.
Will have to RTFM.
The second is the read/write electronics have a PLL
for read
clock recovery. If thats not set up right it will drift
outside the lock in range and start tossing errors. It also
must be setup at working TEMP. The PLL is to track drive
speed errors and irregularities in position and bit shifting.
Will have to look at this too, after figuring out which would be
first in series with the problem.
Did you mean "two state amp" or "two
stage amp"? Likely
it's not an amp problem, a quick look with any old scope
could check that as it warms up.
Two stage. I think you're right, it's probably not a read amp
issue.