Excellent descriptive instructions. Ill print them out. Thanks. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:21 AM, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Thank you all for the excellent information. I think i have a pretty > clear > > idea on what im dealing with now. Quick question though, what if there > is a > > pack in the drive? What holds the pack in there? Can the pack be removed > > without power? > > Believe-it-or-not the pack is held to the spindle by a magnet ring. Yes, a > magnet, that close the the > disks... > > You can't open the drive in the normal way without power. I DO NOT > recomend powering anything > up though. There are 2 ways round this, depending on the age of the drive. > > On early drives (certainly RL01s, I am not sure if any RL02s were made > this way) there is a little cover > on the right hand side of the drive (on the side panel), held on by 2 > screws. Take if off. Behind it you will > see the door lock solenoid. With a flat screwrdriver, pull the armature > down, and hold it down while > sliding the catch on the top. You can now open the lid to remove any pack > and move the head > lock bracket. > > On all drives you can get inside by first extending the drive all the way > out on the slides. That is, pull > it out, then fiddle with the little rocking levers on top of the slides > until it will come out some more. > Now, the drive top is in 2 parts. The front part is the door over the > pack. The rear part is the cover > over the electronics and is retained by 4 captive screws. Undo these. Then > lift the rear edge of the rear > part of the cover -- carefully -- until you can unhook the front edge from > under the rear edge of the > door. Now swing the rear part of the cover rearwards -- lifting the front > edge. There is a PCB fitted to the > inside of this cover with lots of cables going to it. Don't panic, there > is a little bracket on the PCB//cover which > lets you hang it on the back edge of the main drive chassis. You don't > need to unplug anything. Now lift the rear > edge of the door part of the cover slightly until you can slide the catch > on top of this cover. When you do that > the door will come free. Lift it off. There are 2 spring-loaded arms at > the back of the door that will snap over, > don't worry. > > Now you can see if there is a pack in the drive. If there is, lift out the > white cover (looks like a large, shallow, > bowl, open side down) and turn it over. You then see the top of the pack. > In the middle is a handle, brown > for an RL01 pack, blue for an RL02 pack. On the handle is a little square > slider. Slide that over and while > holding it in that position, raise the handle. It will be stiff (if it > isn't, you've not moved the slider properly). > Lift the pack out by the handle and put it into the cover you just > removed. Lower the handle and the pack > will (magnetically) lock into the cover. You can now raise the handle > again without moving the slider and > carry the pack by the handle. > > To put the covers back on, put the door in place almost vertically, and > position the spring-loaded arms on > their guides. Now unhook the rear cover from where you hung it on the back > of the drive and fit it under the > edge of the door. It will hold the door pivots in place. Tighten the 4 > captive screws. Lower the door > and clip it down so that it locks. > > -tony >