Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

yes summa your thread cleared up alot of doubts for me
especially the link to the site

thanks 

i must have misalligned the heads

commical thing is
 the drive doesn't error any more, just won't read 
the original disks.

??????????????????????????
charles




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Summa" <flotorian@...>
To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CZsynth] casio fz10m horner disk drive trouble


> When it comes to floppy disk drives, you have to be carefull to make 
> sure they don't get misaligned. Some years ago I had a hard time 
> manually realigning a disk drive I took apart, you usualy need 
> special equipment for that task...
> 
> This (commercial) page might be helpfull to you, at least when it 
> comes to telling you the basics about floppy disk drive alignment...
> 
> http://www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
> 
> 
> On 8 Aug 2010 at 1:04, charles c wrote:
> 
> > hi i've had a casio fz10m for a half a year now
> > its disk drive was not as responsive as other drives .
> > i took the drive out of the machine for close inspection 
> > but when i reinstalled the drive , it failed to read any of the
> > original disks  i had for it .
> > 
> > now don't get me wrong , i had this thing apart a few times and this
> > never hapened  , i clean and maintanence all my equipment, 
> > so its not a plunder or defective due to my carelessness.
> > 
> > what do we think is wrong ???
> > 
> > anybody had this happen to them ?
> > 
> > anybody know about ther disk drives in the casio fz10m
> > 
> > because now , 
> > 
> > the disk drive acts normal ,
> >  reads any disk made in itself ,
> >  just won't read other disks prior to the cleaning
> > 
> > what did i do?
> > , misallign the heads ,
> > ,unbalenece write stepping?
> > 
> > charles 
> > 
> > 
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