williamm@tramp.Colorado.EDU (WILLIAMS MICHAEL SCOTT) (02/20/88)
Has anybody gotten one of the Bachelor 1/2 height drives that BCE (I think)
had for mail order before they went bankrupt? If so, hopefully you have
experienced the same difficulties that I am, and have fixed them:
1) The drive door cannot be closed all of the way, but only about 75%
of the way for a disk to work in it. I have played around on the inside,
and found that the door WOULD work IF it were held down a little further
internally. If it is not held down, the disk nearly stops spinning.
How would I lower the device or whatever? Can be dealt with, but
nonetheless irritating.
2) It is spinning too fast, but I have no clue as to how to modify the
speed on it. The only pot that I can see on the board uses a plastic(?)
screw, and a substance on it (as is on every screw on the dang thing)
exists so that if it is turned, they can tell (I think it is kind of
paint..maybe). Anyway, since this stuff is on the screw, the screw won't
turn easily, and since it is plastic, it's sides give way before it does.
I guess I mainly want to know if it will be necessary to remove their
pot and put my own on, and IF SO, what ohmage range should it have?
This really gets to be a pain, since I can't even make backups of my own data
disks without a hassle. The other day, my backup of AEPro was eaten when I
changed parameters in the Install and it tried to save them, writing them to
the wrong sector/track - the one containing the main program! This just really
gets to be old...
Thanks for any info,
-remo
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>WILLIAMS MICHAEL SCOTT <tramp!williamm@boulder.colorado.EDU> Writes: > Has anybody gotten one of the Bachelor 1/2 height drives that BCE (I think) >had for mail order before they went bankrupt? If so, hopefully you have >experienced the same difficulties that I am, and have fixed them: > 1) The drive door cannot be closed all of the way, but only about 75% > 2) It is spinning too fast, but I have no clue as to how to modify the speed on it. So THAT'S what happened to the nifty BCE red pages in computer shopper.. (really, I didn't know!) I ordered and received a Bachelor drive last Fall, and it worked fine. The door was definitely a bit strange - swung the opposite way I expected, but otherwise not a problem. I even torture tested it when it first arrived - nothing fancy, just multiple reads and writes. It did have a problem properly formatting disks, but I formatted them on the other drive, and the Bachelor didn't have any problems reading or writing. I no longer have the 1/2 drive, for the Apple system was on loan to me last semester by a good friend, and I sold the Bachelor drive about a month ago at the begininning of the semester. Have you tried contacting Bachelor or BCE about the problem? Is BCE reorganizing? Mike Yellin BITNET: Sparks@Drycas ARPA: MY0L@Andrew.cmu.edu