I know that repairing ProFile Drives can be a tedious and difficult
endeavor, but I thought I'd post my two drive's symptoms here just to see
if anyone had any answers.
The drive, when powered on, spins up and gets pretty loud with a spinning
noise; also, there is a sandy noise when the drive spins (almost like sand
caught in a motor, if you understand what I'm saying), plus a high-pitched
squealing sound. The drive eventually starts to check its disks; the light
blinks and I hear the stepper? motor moving, which sounds fine. After a
while, the drive does come to a solid red light. I don't have a working
Lisa (yet) with which to test this drive, but even though it gets to the
red light and "seems" like it's ready to boot, the mechanical parts of the
drive just don't sound healthy (it makes me cringe when I listen to the
drive spinning up because I'm worried that I'm damaging it). I opened up
the drive today and took out the controller board. Underneath, where
there's a big drum-like contraption that spins, a bunch of fine black dust
had settled on everything. I cleanly blew out the dust that I could and
cleaned as much of the rest as I could with a swab and alcohol. After
re-assembly, the drive still sounds the same. Does anyone have any idea
what's going on here?
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Received on 2013-12-31 19:32:12