Good news on my RK05 drives

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jul 25 23:05:50 2004

> Drive 0 seems to have problems reading, but does spin up
> and light the ON-CYL and READY lights. I need to watch the head
> when I attempt to do a READ and see if it's doing anything.
> Experts, does this sound like an alignment problem or
> something else?

I'm not an expert, but...

Maybe an alignment problem, maybe soemthing else. What you want to do is
take a pack you don't care about the contents of, and attempt to format
and verify it in drive 0 (this will erase everything on the pack). If
this works, then the problem is radial alignment (head alignment) -- the
drive can read/write correctly, but just not in the same place as other
drives.

If it fails, then there's something else wrong. Maybe head positioning,
maybe the read/write board, maybe... You then need to do more
troubleshooting, maybe with a'scope, while the drive is
formatting/verifying to see just what is going on.

-tony
Received on Sun Jul 25 2004 - 23:05:50 BST