Hi friends!
I have a question about the Philips VY-0010 diskdrive. I recentely got one
(for free! ;-), and when I made all the connections and switched everything
on, the power LED went on, and after 2 seconds, it went off again...
So I went to an electronics-freak... We thought it was in the power supply,
and we found that one big capacitor was broken. We replaced it, and still the
fuse blowed when turning the drive on. After 2 weeks of searching we decided
to replace the 'voltage-regulators' (I hope that's the correct English
translation of the Dutch word 'spanningsregelaars'). And YES! The fuse didn't
blow!
So now I connected the drive again to an MSX, and indeed, I could load
programs from disk. But one strange thing is happening: when I don't put a
disk in the drive, the drive tries reading. You can hear it spinning and you
hear the drivehead moving. Also the BUSY LED is lit. But it won't stop! I
should get a "Disk offline" error, shouldn't I? But the computer waits and
waits... Only when I turn off the drive, the computer reports "Disk offline".
When I then insert a disk, I can use it normally. But this whole thing is
rather irritating! I now cannot boot without a disk in the drive... (unless I
turn the drive off...)
Does anyone know what causes this strange effect? (And how I can solve it...
Is it a hardware failure?)
Grtjs, Manuel
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