> Well, it could be that the heads are not pressed tight enough onto
> the disk, thereby not transferring the magnetic info correctly. (Try
> pressing play just a little bit on your walkman and you'll hear the effect:
> high frequencies get lost).
No, pushing the head downwards does not help. I mean pressing the head in the
direction of the bootsector.
> This is hard to measure, but maybe if you have access to another
> (broken) drive you can compare it.
>
> Another thing is there may be 'speling' (what is the English
> word...play?) in the horizontal movement of the heads, thereby not aligning
> the tracks right every time (but maybe sometimes).
What can I do about it? The head is indeed a bit 'loose'..
> More possibilities: excentric movement of the disk (check the rim
> while it's spinning). Maybe the sector 0 detector is not always working. I
rim? It seems to be ok.
> don't know how this works in this drive, but in mine it's a magnet on the
> spindle motor passing a hall switch. If it's optical in the 8245, maybe it's
> dirty.
It doesn't look optical, i.e. I see no little light. It looks ok though.
> So far my ideas...good luck and let me know if you find out more.
Ok, anyone else that might be able to help me? I feel it must be possible to
get this drive working again! (It almost works!)
Grtjs, Manuel
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