On 10/18/2015 11:48 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote: > Thanks Rod, > > I feel stupid ... It would have been a simple check to see whether > the floppy drive actually rotates the floppy [dumb, dumb, dumb]. > I did transport the disk drive very carefully ... The trip was not > bumpy, and most of it was on a (smooth) highway. > Keeping fingers crossed. > > Checking the drive belts is a good idea! May have fallen off, > I have seen that before on DEC drives (RX01, RX02). Whether the > hard disk has a self test, I don't know (yet). > I have the terminal connected that was used with the system, > a Dasher D200. I am pretty sure that the connection is correct, > but now I start having doubts. > > Floppy diskette still OK is the big question. Interesting system, > I need to study the documentation! > > greetz, > - Henk > >
On one of my two hard drives, there is a tendency for the belt to spin off on startup, too. JRJ
