>
> Aaron,
>
> One thing I would check is the motor bearings. What happens on electro
> mechanical assemblies left in store for years is that ball bearing
> grease lube dries out and hardens, resulting in lumpy rotation and
> increased friction that can be detected by rotating the spindle by
> hand
On 22 December 2020 at 22:17 GMT, shad via cctalk wrote:
>> The ready lamp flashes not when the servo burst is >visible, but when the
> heads are just before it.
>> Why? Well, I probably set the gain too high on the read/write module.
>
> Hello,
> I'm sure you read the manual, however I add som
> The ready lamp flashes not when the servo burst is >visible, but when the
heads are just before it.
> Why? Well, I probably set the gain too high on the read/write module.
Hello,
I'm sure you read the manual, however I add some explanation to be sure.
The best head position is not where a servo
On 22 December 2020 at 10:33 GMT, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> On 22 December 2020 at 08:01 GMT, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>>> The status currently is that the heads will load, and the ready lamp
>>> flashes as the heads wobble back and fo
On 22 December 2020 at 08:01 GMT, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>> The status currently is that the heads will load, and the ready lamp
>> flashes as the heads wobble back and forth very slightly, trying to lock
>> onto the outer servo guard band.
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Aaron Jackson wrote:
The status currently is that the heads will load, and the ready lamp
flashes as the heads wobble back and forth very slightly, trying to lock
onto the outer servo guard band. Probing TP2 of the read/write module, I
can see the S1 servo burst flash (roughl
> From: Josh Dersch
> RL02 packs that have been degaussed.
Might as well hammer nails through them. "To keep the heads properly aligned
on the tracks, it used a servo system driven by servo data written on the pack
(along with sector headers) at the factory. Packs cannnot be low-level
re-
>> > I've posted a few times over the years about RL02 drives and my
>> > difficulty getting them working (no luck so far!). I've spent the past
>> > few days working on one of them and have made some progress.
>> >
>> > The status currently is that the heads will load, and the ready lamp
>> > flas
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 3:09 PM Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> On 12/21/2020 01:08 PM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I've posted a few times over the years about RL02 drives and my
> > difficulty getting them working (no luck so far!). I've spent the past
> > few days wor
On 12/21/2020 01:08 PM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Hi everyone
I've posted a few times over the years about RL02 drives and my
difficulty getting them working (no luck so far!). I've spent the past
few days working on one of them and have made some progress.
The status currently is that th
On 21 December 2020 at 19:08 GMT, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> Supposedly if the main drive motor is bad it will emit noise and cause
> the tachometer (just a coil of wire on the head carriage) to produce
> spikes. Mine does look quite noisy but I'm not sure what's causing it. I
> would exp
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