End The 1541 Torture & Look For Alignment Resolution! Adjusting The Stepper Motor! - Episode 1106
3I have tried most everything...and despite some hope, this drive is not performing, so I am going to see about adjusting the actual stepper motor...which is not at all easy to release...as the screws are somewhat glued into position...which is a smart thing...unless you are trying to do what I am trying to do...which will likely do nothing good anyway! But I must try...I would suppose! Soon this drive will be taken to bits, quite literally!
By the way, any insights you have would be tremendously appreciated!
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I have never been the best at sorting out alignment issues, but I do not think alignment will correct this very out of sorts mechanism...but perhaps it will...who knows...gotta give it a try...I would suppose! It only take two screws to undo the head stop thingy...and then I will experiment with it...but I do not think anything is going to help...but we shall see...
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It is a delicate balancing act to plug these things into each other to sort out for sure what is working, and what is not...it can be done...and I will do it, but I must take it slow and use all available patience...and be careful to plug in each connector to the right pins, facing the right way, and exactly in the right position...there are three parts...and I suspect we are dealing with a bad drive mechanism...but we shall see! And time to torture the circuit board and power supply...with CHECK DISK!
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I cleaned the head on this Commodore 1541 disk drive again and let it sit and rest overnight...and now I am going to make every effort to test the drive mechanism with a working power supply and circuit board...but of course the extra switches are adding to the joy of all of this...
By the way, be very careful to plug things in properly when doing such tests as this...it is easy to slip a pin and get something back on, but not on correctly!
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So, it is time to try to connect the actual disk drive drive to a working circuit board that by now has some of the chips from the drive in question...the wires and switches are complicating the issue...how to get all this balanced...etc...I have had success in setting things up beside each other in the past...but these additional bits are making it more difficult...anyway, onward with the experiments! I am thinking that the disk drive will still fail...yes, I think the power supply is good, the circuit board is likely good, but the actual drive is not...perhaps the head itself is toast...as it really does not seem to even attempting to read a disk...as in, often if it is sort of working and trying, you can see it struggle some before it gives up...this pretty much just gives up...watch and perhaps, learn even! Also, make sure you plug in all the connectors properly...use your patience...and see where the puzzle leads to!
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I had the head bang about 1500 times...and the drive did not get at all better...so, it is time to try to isolate the parts of the unit to see what is what and what is working and what is toast...or at least crispy...but these wires, they make it difficult...and the screws on the circuit board are so damned tight! Oh the torture of it all, perhaps the drive is trying to get back at me for having it smash the heads so many times!
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It is time to go deep and have a look inside of this 1541! It is not trying to read at all...it bangs and bangs and really gives no indication that it wants to read or write for that matter...time to have a look at the head and see about cleansing it perhaps! Also, not a bad time to swap out some chips! And what is what with those switches and wires!!!
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Two mysterious switches have been added to this 1541...and I am not at all sure what they do...perhaps it is so we can decide if this drive is 8, 9, 10, or 11, but we will not know until we have a look inside...but first, let us see how well or not well the unit performs!
Onward!
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