Interesting stuff. I still haven't solved my problems with the two non-working 1541-II drives (another thread), and I am now looking for a replacement mechanism. I found couple on eBay, but wondered why they all looked different to mine (Mitsumi). I had never thought these drives had different mechs, too. Can somebody provide pics on how the front panels differ between mechs? -- Ville Laustela silverdr@wfmh.org.pl kirjoitti 14.9.2014 kello 22.39: > On 2014-09-14 at 21:12:50, Gerrit Heitsch (gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de) wrote: > >>>>>>>> Do we know exactly what all types of mechanisms the 1541-IIs were >>>>>>>> equipped with? Were there more than one type (as with the older 1541s)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I believe there were at least two - one direct drive, the other >>>>>>> belt-driven. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, I have one of each. The belt driven one is Newtronics/Mitsumi, the >>>>>> direct drive is Chinon. The latter is the one where the disk pops out a >>>>>> bit when unlocking the drive. >>>>> >>>>> It's probably the other way around as those I have here are direct driven and the disk >>>> doesn't pop out. >>>> >>>> Check the mechanism then, might have gotten stuck. >>> >>> I did. There is no mechanism that'd eject the disk. >>> >>> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58002657/cbm/1541-II/2014-09-14%2020.42.39.jpg >> >> That would be a third mechanism for the 1541-II then... The direct drive >> I know is made by Chinon and has that eject feature. > > The ones here have only what I'd call a provision for such feature. So there is *at least* three different drives that sit in 1541-II > > Those like mine: > > http://www.nightfallcrew.com/wp-content/gallery/commodore-disk-drive-1541-ii-boxed/IMG_6278.jpg > > http://www.elisanet.fi/siili/cbm/pics/dtv1541II_1.jpg > > The Chinons you mention: > > http://bilgisayarlarim.com/Commodore/1541-II_(Kutulu)/05.jpg > > http://bsz.amigaspirit.hu/blpcs/20121230/pic0081.jpg > > http://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardware/Commodore-1541-II-Floppy-Drive/Commodore-1541-II-Floppy-Drive-rev-7/Commodore-1541-II-Floppy-Drive-Rev-7-004.JPG > > and the Mitsumi: > > http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/CABLEPIX/1541_II/154121.jpg > > http://bilgisayarlarim.com/Commodore/1541-II/03.jpg > > And all of them (especially the Chinon on the backside) are mechanically different enough to make it infeasible to handle all of them properly :-( > > > -- > SD! > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2014-09-14 21:00:02
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