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From: cs4344af@cse.uta.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1571 troubles
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.060123.8666@cse.uta.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 06:01:23 GMT
References: <91115.174020PTS102@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Apr26.022406.19243@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <91115.174020PTS102@psuvm.psu.edu> PTS102@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>My 1571's motor seems to be having trouble grabbing the disk- i.e. the
>motor spins but the disk doesn't.  I have to turn the handle VERY HARD
>to get the motor to grab, and as a result I cracked the handle off
>(there's a knob there now).  Also, at the beginning of a read or write,
>the LED sputters as though there's no disk in the drive, but 'catches'
>within a second or so.  I've tried cleaning the moving parts of the handle
>mechanism with limited results.

All 1571's that I have seen have a small physical quirk.  When a disk is
inserted and the door is closed, the disk does not always seat properly.
I find that all I hae to do is 'tap' the disk after having closed the
door, and a soft 'click' lets me know that it is seated.  This has
gotten to be such a habit that I forget that I'm doing it, and I have
never seen the problem again.  Tapping the disk is just part of putting
the disk in the drive.

I had a friend who had a problem just like yours (except he didn't break
his door lever), and once I taught him to do the 'tap', he never had
trouble again.

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