After the comments/recommendations to think about attempting a repair to 
the Parker drives, I popped several open and took a good look around. On 
the top surface I could find no obvious problems. Not popped caps, no 
burn marks, nothing. On the bottom, I found what looks to be a problem 
on two of the bad drives. There are three SMD's located near the drive 
output port that appear to be toast. The problem is I can't identify 
them. The board stencil “CR” notation seems to indicate they are crystal 
rectifiers and you can see polarity marks on one side. I tried to track 
down the SMD codes online but had no success. Soooooooo, since some of 
you spurred me on, I thought I'd throw this back out here to see if any 
of you guys had any ideas. I've attached links to three photos that may 
be of some help.

This is a close-up of one of my good drives:

_https://www.dropbox.com/sc/fzugl3ebp7hlbbj/AABZSMn6f70FORZS3FpRhRc-a_

This is a close-up showing the suspect SMD's on a bad drive:

_https://www.dropbox.com/sc/eeoy5dpw1861j54/AAAigtSkz9aLiKBbZVY9FFUia_

And this is a close-up of the shot Dave supplied yesterday for one of 
his Parker drives:

_https://www.dropbox.com/sc/hwfjcjmtqpwjfyh/AAD09FOOfweAwIAbjbs9FRwQa_

It's interesting to note that the SMD part codes on Dave's board are 
different than mine. But I couldn't track down the parts using his codes 
either.


Any thoughts?

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