Re: 9114A Drive Message #5 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 17 Nov 2012, 7:48 p.m., in response to message #4 by David Ramsey
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But with no disk in the drive, the heads are apart, separated by a distance of some millimeters
Theoretically this should be the case, but especially these old Sony drives were problematic, not only in the 9114, but in many devices they were used in. During a certain period of time, HP used these drives in several peripheral devices, like HP-IB disc drives.
Therefore when bought new, these drives were shipped with a yellow pseudo-disc inserted, acting as a spacer, which moved the heads into the "touch surface" position.
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