root42, 6 months ago

…and one of the evil drives. Taking all bets, as it doesn’t work.
#commodore #commodore1541

root42, 5 months ago

…and it was the read head, as usual. Red wire was open. So this drive will get a head transplant. Afterwards we can try to open up the broken head and see if we can do anything about it. Maybe only the copper leading to the red wire ripped off, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

elosha, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

@root42 The Mitsumi hardware construction looks much more robust. 🥰 Those often broken heads don‘t really fit into the image. It‘s weird.

root42, 5 months ago

@elosha PC Mitsumi drives don’t have that problem either.

elosha, 5 months ago

@root42 Well … most of my broken PC drives are Mitsumi 😒 I once even had a burned read coil on a D509.

root42, 5 months ago

@elosha Interesting. The one in my Colani still works fine. But I don't have many other Mitsumis I think. A couple of 3.5" maybe