Re: Widget Rotor Adjustment HElP ??? from Terry Stewart on 2011-03-09 (lisalist1)

From: Terry Stewart <terry_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:46:34 +1300

Good one. Nothing like a good dose of violence to scare these old machines into working (-:

Does the Widget work now, or do you get the dreaded "Error 82"?

Terry

Original Message ----- From: Jason Perkins To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden Cc: Joe Vogel Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:51 AM Subject: Re: Widget Rotor Adjustment HElP ???

When I was trying to get my broken widget going I did twiddle with those adjustments. Changing them did change the sound the head seek motor made. Hopefully I didn't cause too much screwdriver drift. I put them back where I had marked them.

I eventually got really frustrated, grabbed the seek motor's spindle, moved it violently... and the disk started working and has ever since! How's that for lucky? I had already unstuck and adjusted the brake, it was not the cause of the problem.

-Jason

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Joe Vogel <rightwayjoe_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

Hi Terry,

Unfortunately it is not.

It has to do with one of the 7 pots on the widget motherboard I think. Anyone know what they are used for ???

On Tue, 3/8/11, tezza <terry_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

            From: tezza <terry_at_email.domain.hidden>
            Subject: Re: Widget Rotor Adjustment HElP ???
            To: "LisaList" <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden>
            Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6:16 PM



            Jo,

            It's not the well known "Widget brake" problem is it?

            http://lisafaq.sunder.net/single.html#lisafaq-hw-hd-error_81_brake

            Terry

            On Mar 8, 5:05 am, Joe Vogel <rightway..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:


            > Hi Everyone.  I need your collective resources on this one.  I have a Lisa 2/10 w/10MB Widget.  After removing the harddisk from the cage - the only way to get the rotor to spin is to get it going in a counter-clockwise direction by hand.


            > Sometimes it will start up on it's own but most of the time (95%) it has to have an assist.

            > Someone mentioned an adjustment on the widget to correct this but they didn't know where it was.   

            > Any help will be apprectiated.

            > Thanks.


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