Emax

It's a Double density double sided (DD DS) floppy drive. There has been some
debate about if they are Mac or PC, SCSI, or other. I''ve never opened mine up.
I would open the keyboard up and get a friend who knows computers to look at the
floppy.
Be sure not to touch electronics if you can help it, get a grounding wrist strap
and read up on anti-static procedures so you don't zap a vital component.
You may be able to use a modern High Density (HD DS)  PC floppy drive or
scavenge a DD DS out of an old Mac or Atari ST  depending on what you find.
I still think it's heat related in regards to a circuit board. It may be the
board on the floppy drive itself, or the board that talks to the floppy drive
and/or hard drive. I don't see why a spring would go bad after 1/2 hour. If a
spring is bad, it probably stays bad, and would be a symptom such as not being
able to eject the floppy disk.
100 to 150 seems like a lot of money, most of it is probably labor. I would want
a guaranteed diagnostic before I committed that much money. It would be a shame
if you replaced the floppy drive for that much money and it still happened.

Bob


anthony wilson wrote:

> >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
> >Reply-To: emax@egroups.com
> >To: emax@egroups.com
> >Subject: [emax] Re: emaxII breakdown
> >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:20 -0000
> >
> >My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable
> >media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive
> >issue?
> >
> >--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then
> >decides
> > > to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then
> >says
> > > 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.
> >Can
> > > anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a
> >solution to the
> > > problem?
> >
> >
> cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure it
> is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in
> Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line
> (!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost \ufffd100-\ufffd150 to fix, is this
> right?
>
> Cheers again
>
> Anth
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