Re: Crippled Disk ][ Problem

[jolomo@netcom.com (Joe Morris)]

Problem solved quickly by Mr. Steve Jensen of Cal State!

A pink ceramic looking grooved disk inside the drive was the culprit.
Rotating this should have moved a following arm, but didn't. Simply
rotating this "cam" a full turn dropped the follower into place and
now the drive works perfectly.

I have heard it said that Usenet is a waste of time and energy, I whole-
heartedly disagree.

Joe Morris (jolomo@netcom.com) wrote:
> I recently aquired a Disk ][ drive and can't get it to work -- I know
> nothing of its history.

> The symptoms: when accessed the light does come on and the disk
> spins. When I try to read a known good disk, I get "I/O ERROR". When
> I try to format a disk it lights up, spins but doesn't make the "format"
> sound (COPYA generates the "UNABLE TO WRITE" error, other formatters
> quit with other errors).

> Disks I tried to format on this drive formatted fine on my first drive.
> Tried setting this up as Drive 1 the light came on, disk spun, but no
> startup sound and no startup.

> All the cabling looks Ok, and the drive looks to be in excellent shape.

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        -joe        "Honey, they're in *everybody's* eggs" --firesigns