From: William Levak (wlevak_at_grex.cyberspace.org)
Date: 2005-06-18 06:06:20
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Hello William,
>
> * On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:21:08AM -0400 William Levak wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Well, "verkanntet" comes from "verkannten", while "verkannt" comes from
> "verkennen". These are quite different words.
My dictionary does not have "verkannten". "Verkennen" means to
"misjudge". This does not appear to be quite right.
The English word "cant" in the sense of an edge is listed as Middle
English, obsolete for about 400 years.
The drive error messages usually have an error number with them, I could
look up the number in the English version of the manual. The manual does
not list a "seek" error.
> What I wanted to tell: The drive head is in a mechanical position where
> it cannot move anymore. It is mechanically stuck.
As I recall, the head rides on a rail, and is driven by a worm gear. It
may not be possible to move the head by pushing on it. Try rotating the
worm gear.
Sometimes the drives get "lost" if the head is too far out when the drive
starts up. The block read, U1, command to track 1 usually resets the
drive correctly. Sometimes, formatting a disk will also work.
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