Re: She Lives!! Widget is running!

2005-11-11 Thread Chris Riedl
x27;s long ago. -Chris - Original Message - From: "Jason Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LisaList" Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:00 AM Subject: Re: She Lives!! Widget is running! Cool! Glad you got her working! Previous owner leave any interesting doc

Re: She Lives!! Widget is running!

2005-11-07 Thread Jason Perkins
Cool! Glad you got her working! Previous owner leave any interesting documents? I got a profile a while back that was full of engineering drawings! The widget is the most unique sounding drive I've ever heard. Mine runs very quietly actually, save the squeaka de squeak of the head voice coil.

Re: She Lives!! Widget is running!

2005-11-07 Thread macmoni
Hi Chris, congratulation ! What are normal Widget sounds? In general very loud, compared to the nowadays hf-drives :-) ...if an occasional chirp-like sound (rapid movement of R/W head motors?) is normal. Yes, that's "normal". I also have that sound on my drives. Approximately once to twice e

She Lives!! Widget is running!

2005-11-06 Thread Chris Riedl
After putting two and two together, I knew the Widget had a controller board problem somewhere. From inspecting and cleaning the other boards in the Lisa, I discovered that Apple had used the cheaper style of IC sockets on the boards, stamped vs machined contacts. The machined sockets don'