Are there any good alternative solutions I can do to replace it? I'm sure I don't want the plastic touching the disk media.
-Dan On 2/5/16, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 02/05/2016 08:02 PM, Dan K wrote: >> Another great tip. This plagued me for a long time, until >> I realized that I had only one drive connected, and it had >> the resistor network IC unpopulated. I borrowed it from >> the other drive (they were on the same wire, so I suppose >> that only one resistor network is necessary) and that's >> what led to my initial success. > Yes, the terminating resistor pack should only be in the > last drive on the cable. >> It seems to do the job, but I still don't have a >> replacement pad. That seems to be okay however, because on >> one drive the head load solenoid doesn't appear to come >> down far enough to push the disk very much. I don't think >> I've ever seen the pad on either drive come down enough to >> physically touch the disk--maybe just brushing it, barely. >> What might cause this? > Probably wear, or maybe warpage of the parts over time. The > pressure pad should be fairly soft, usually a felt-like > material. It needs to push the media into contact with the > read-write head. Without it, you will occasionally get good > enough contact to read a sector header or even a whole > sector, but it won't be consistent. The data will come and > go as the disk rotates. > > Jon >