At 09:39 13-10-2000 -0500, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
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>I pull the pack (heads still retracted), and
>turn it on whilst fooling the pack inserted/door closed
>switch. The spindle turns *very* slowly, and then
>stops.
READ BELOW FIRST. Failing that, you may want to check on the solid-state
relay controlling the spindle motor. Most AC SSR's are nothing more than a
pair of triacs or SCR's in opposite/parallel with each other, and sealed in
with an optical source to activate them. If one of the internal devices
fails in an 'open' condition, I could see it creating the kind of symptom
you're describing.
>I haven't plugged this thing into a live host interface
>yet; I'm just trying to see if everything's okay first.
Ahhhh... and if I'd read this far, I would not have suggested that the
relay might be bad. I seem to recall that the RL02's will not even spin up
if they're not connected to a host controller and powered CPU (someone
double-check me on that, please?)
>I read somewhere that it gets it's spindle motor clock
>from the RLV12/11).
This much I remember. The spindle motor is a basic AC synchronous at 3600
RPM. I could be mistaken, but I've never heard of it needing spindle clock
from the host.
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Received on Fri Oct 13 2000 - 10:38:30 BST