Re: Broken Unidisk 3.5" drive?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> The Unidisk GS/OS driver is installed and working (as you can see by the
> drive light and a faint sound that it is actively polling the drive once
the
> Finder is up, and stops whenever the Finder is "busy").  Unfortunately, it
> never actually "sees" the disk in the drive, as it continues to poll even
> with a disk inserted (but the disk "slide door" does not appear to be
> unlatching).
>
> It does not work under GS/OS or ProDOS, as there does seem to be some sort
> of mechanical malfunction.
>
> The disk does not eject with the button pushed - the button appears to
have
> some effect, as there is a notable change in signal on the Apple bus when
> the button is pushed (appears to act as a momentary push-switch).
>
> The cable is properly seated (and tried on two machines) and is the only
> drive connected to the IIgs at this time, to eliminate any possibility of
> connection failure.
>
> Thanks!

Okay, find a heavy duty paper clip and unfold it.  There is a small
hole under the drive eject button.  Put the clip into the hole and
push.  It should eject the disk from the drive.  Sometimes the
eject button is jammed and a little nudge will unjam it.  If this
fails, open the case and check the eject switch manually and
see if it is jammed.  I have had this switch get jammed on my
drive once but once I got it to unjam, it was fine.  When I first
got my Unidisk, a disk was jammed into the drive and this
seemed to work.  It doesn't have any problems now.  I believe
the mechanism is a standard Sony Apple drive so replacing
it with a standard Sony mechanism should be possible.  The
major difference with the Unidisk is that it has an internal
processor, memory and controller.  Hope this helps.
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