mikeyp
Experienced Member
I have picked up a cheap non-working Tandon TM100-2A. The drive is cleaned and lubricated but I can't get it to align. It's a whole track out! The cam only seems to want to adjust it within the bounds of the one track. I have it reading nicely, just to the wrong track. What do I adjust on this to make a more drastic adjustment and get it reading the correct track please? Track 0 does read correctly but from track 1 onwards it reads track ID-1 so 20 reads 19, 30 reads 29 etc.
A disk formatted in the drive itself seems to work ok though I suspect it would have issues since track 0 and 1 must overlap.
Testing for alignment is being done with a disk from the good drive. Testing from other known good drives can be done too if needed.
The image below shows my XT with some cards removed, good drive installed and new drive sitting atop the HDD.
By the way, replies to this will be quite delayed as getting this all out is a bit of a mission and can only be done when my wife isn't home...
A disk formatted in the drive itself seems to work ok though I suspect it would have issues since track 0 and 1 must overlap.
Testing for alignment is being done with a disk from the good drive. Testing from other known good drives can be done too if needed.
The image below shows my XT with some cards removed, good drive installed and new drive sitting atop the HDD.
By the way, replies to this will be quite delayed as getting this all out is a bit of a mission and can only be done when my wife isn't home...