From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-06-17 08:51:36
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.
What I wanted to tell: The drive head is in a mechanical position where
it cannot move anymore. It is mechanically stuck.
> 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.
I knew this from 5 1/4" mechanics - that special paperback insert which
tries to keep the heads on track 1 (or 0) - but I've never seen such a
thing for a 3 1/2" drive, thus, I thought these were not necessary
there.
I will keep this in mind for the next time.
Regards,
Spiro.
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Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/
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