On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> One other question. I have two Commodore D9090 Hard drives that have both
> stopped working 5 years ago. At the time, I took them to a repairer but I
> think that he deliberately damaged the electronics, because he wanted to
> sell me a CMD-Hard drive and he knew I was very reluctant to buy the CMD, if
> he managed to gety my D9090's working.
> I have improved my knowledge & skills working as a Technician for a couple
> of years and I have opened & examined one of the drives in detail and after
> days of work, I have concluded that the components are all working but I
> found a CUT TRACK !!!!
> The TRACK on BOTH D9090 hard drives looks like someone cut it. Very strange
> for BOTH to have this cut track.
> BUT, I am not sure if this was done by commodore when they manufactured the
> device or if the previous repairer cut these Tracks to ensure no one repairs
> them.
>
> I am desperately seeking advice, Do you know anyone who cn help me with this
> ? I have used my scanner to scan in all PCB's from the D9090, so I can email
> a very clear photo of the suspect area if need be.
> Any advice ?
The entire service manual, including schematics, is on funet.
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