Fairlight-CMI

Hi David,

Did you check whether the drives are 50 Hz models ?
Both drives defect sounds not too likely.
Could also be smear on the heads, oxidization or dust or a broken center
pressure ring ?

Are all the cards in the right slot ?

Regards,
Harald

> I'm helping out a friend who bought a malfunctioning IIx. Both drives
> don't work.
>
> It took us a whole afternoon to figure this out. It shows a distorted
> image while trying to boot from the system disk. However it's possible to
> boot from the QDOS disk.
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> We swapped all the cards from my working unit with his unit but the result
> was always the same.
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> The left drive is the least functioning one. You can hear its motor
> running when you insert a disk but it doesn't perform any read actions.
> You don't hear it's head clicking. Inserting a system disk in it will tell
> us that it's an unidentified system disk.
>
> The right drive has a strange issue. And it was this that through us of
> when we were debugging the IIx. It will boot from a QDOS disk but it won't
> boot from a system disk.
> It starts to boot from the system disk. You can hear it click regularly
> for 5 times after which it stops. The screen will then show a random
> distorted image.
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> I see 2 options:
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> 1. Repairing the drives. But I don't have any experience with this. So,
> does anyone have any experience that he/she wants to share?
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> 2. Installing a HxC drive. But I don't have a clue how I would do this.
> I'd love to have some proper instructions to try this out.
>
> David
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