Whew!

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed May 5 21:49:58 1999

<So the zillion dollar question is, why the heck did the TK70 smoke like tha

Likely a tantalum capacitor cooked. I've seen that on various drives. often
if removed and the board cleaned up they still operate. They usually short
just hard enough that a good power supply will smoke the offending cap.
Generally if caught soon enough the no damage save for a bad cap cooked
to a crisp.

<Is the power connector not a 'standard' one? +5 +12 and GND little plastic
<molex hood?

Most of the TKs I know use the same power connector as a floppy/hard disk.

<could try one without the metal plate but I'm not going to experiment on m
<only two remaining drives! I'm guessing there is some "other" type of plat
<for these drives.

nope, standard plate. Maybe too long a screw?

Allison
Received on Wed May 05 1999 - 21:49:58 BST