From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-06-17 07:21:08
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Thanks to Ray Carlsen's very good site - Ray, in case you read this mail
> here, thank you very much for it! -, I was able to find out that the
> 1581 should start to move the R/W head when a PC formatted disk is
> inserted. Thus, I opened the drive and switched it on. I could see the
> R/W head start to "try" to move, but it did not move at all. According
> to Ray's site, it should. I switched off the drive, tried to move the
> R/W head by hand - as suggested by Ray, too - and find out the the first
> move was *very* hard. It seems the head was "cant" ("verkanntet" in
> German, I hope this is the right word in english).
My German-English dictionary says that "verkannt" means "unrecognized",
which seams correct here.
When floppy drives are shipped, they should have a floppy disk (or
equivalent retainer) latched in the drive, as it would be when in use.
This protects the mechanism from rough handling.
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