Date   : Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:48:49 +0100 (BST)
From   : "F. Haroon" <haroonnet2002@...>
Subject: Re: TEAC diskdrives not working anymore with my BBC?

Open the disk drive and check there's not dust in the electronics.  It
could be the insides are dusty and the dust has got to the moving
parts.  Or, the track switch leads may have snapped off.  Or, a
component has blown in there due to long periods of disuse.

Fiaz.

 --- janssenp <janssenp@...> wrote: 
> I have two TEAC 5 1/4" diskdrives (type FD-55FR-511-U) connected to
> my
> Beeb; they
> are in one case with their own power-supply.
> I haven't been using them for about one year, but yesterday, in a
> nostalgic mood, I tried
> to load some programs of discs but the only thing I have got from
> BOTH
> drives is
> Disc Fault 18 at 00/00. I have checked: it is not the disc (I have
> tried
> several), nor the Beeb, nor the lead
> nor the power supply*; apparently both drives developed a (the same!)
> fault in the last year!
> (And yes, I have cleaned the heads). It looks like the heads don't
> move
> to the track they should read.
>  
> Does anybody have a clou what went wrong and how to repair them?
>  
> Peter Janssen, Geleen The Netherlands
>  
> * I have connected another drive to the Beeb and power supply,
> another
> lead, etc. The two disk also didn't
>      work when connected to another Beeb.
>  
>  


       
       
               
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