Fairlight-CMI

1. Can you hear the disk spinning ?

- diagnostic: the mechanics of the drive can not properly transfer enough
'spin' to the disk to keep it spinning. This is a common problem with
record players, old diskette drives, laser printers and tape units of all
sorts. They use rubber which loses its 'grip' over time. Possibly the
rubber band that spins the center hub is slipping or broken. If slipping,
cleaning it with a moist cloth might help. If broken, try to find a
replacement.

2. The disk heads are dirty.

- Use a cleaning disk or open the system and inspect the disk heads
manually to find out whether any dirt (mainly dust and/or oxide) is
present on the head. Clean using pure alcohol on a cotton swab. Do not use
anything else.

3. Bad luck, I'm out of options.

Good luck to you, but chances are it's repairable.

Harald.

> I've always used the left-hand drive as Drive 1 on my Series I. Only
> ever used it to load a test 'beep' sound, and a tiny page R sequence,
> from the diagnostics disk - because I had no sound library. (well a
> Series I doesn't have much *practical* use any more!) Never had any
> problems.