Re: Sticking RL02 positioner

2019-04-08 Thread Charles via cctalk
-Original Message- From: Paul Koning Sent: Monday, April 08, 2019 6:26 PM To: Charles ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Sticking RL02 positioner On Apr 8, 2019, at 6:11 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote: One of my RL02 drives (that sat for a long time

Re: Sticking RL02 positioner

2019-04-08 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 8, 2019, at 6:11 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote: > > One of my RL02 drives (that sat for a long time) has developed what appears > to be a sticky head positioner. > But it's only a problem going from the full-retracted position to loading > track 0. > Once it's loaded, the drive will

Sticking RL02 positioner

2019-04-08 Thread Charles via cctalk
One of my RL02 drives (that sat for a long time) has developed what appears to be a sticky head positioner. But it's only a problem going from the full-retracted position to loading track 0. Once it's loaded, the drive will pass all seek and read/write tests. It takes a surprising (to me)