Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: pentium on June 25, 2010, 01:00:45 AM
Post by: pentium on June 25, 2010, 01:00:45 AM
20 MO disks
$5 a disk
Suprisingly, one of the cartridges is a Canon MO-502M double-sided 256Mb cartridge. (that's 512mb in total!)
Now I have more then enough test media to use in my MO drive recapping experiments and they were all used in an MO drive as recently as July 14, 1996 which proves that something happened to 99% the MO drives made in the last decade as these came from a place which has been using MO cartridges since the Cube came out.
$5 a disk
Suprisingly, one of the cartridges is a Canon MO-502M double-sided 256Mb cartridge. (that's 512mb in total!)
Now I have more then enough test media to use in my MO drive recapping experiments and they were all used in an MO drive as recently as July 14, 1996 which proves that something happened to 99% the MO drives made in the last decade as these came from a place which has been using MO cartridges since the Cube came out.
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: NeXTsociety on June 25, 2010, 10:54:28 AM
Post by: NeXTsociety on June 25, 2010, 10:54:28 AM
I think if someone figured out how to fix these units they could make a nice little sum. I would pay to get mine fixed for sure. Mine is so clean I hate to trash it but for now she sits in bubble wrap until the someone has the magic wand of MO fixing. tj
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: pentium on June 25, 2010, 11:27:58 AM
Post by: pentium on June 25, 2010, 11:27:58 AM
Me and a friend are already experimenting. Our first plan is to recap the entire MO drive since that particular series cap is known to leak. and it's the most likely suspect as all th boards use the same capacitor so some boards might have healthier caps than others and cause all sorts of problems.
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: NeXTsociety on June 25, 2010, 11:29:50 AM
Post by: NeXTsociety on June 25, 2010, 11:29:50 AM
Quote from: "pentium"Me and a friend are already experimenting. Our first plan is to recap the entire MO drive since that particular series cap is known to leak. and it's the most likely suspect as all th boards use the same capacitor so some boards might have healthier caps than others and cause all sorts of problems.
Well if you do find a fix, make sure to offer this is a service and charge a bazillion $ to fix peoples units. :lol: :lol:
tj
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: mrintel on June 25, 2010, 01:49:21 PM
Post by: mrintel on June 25, 2010, 01:49:21 PM
...it's...you...uh...wow!
I wonder what's on all of them.
I wonder what's on all of them.
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: pentium on June 26, 2010, 01:44:01 AM
Post by: pentium on June 26, 2010, 01:44:01 AM
For the most part they appear to be backups save for two which might contain music software and of course, there is the System Software 1.0 disc which hopefully I can get the cube to boot alone off the MO drive.
Regardless, unless anyone else comes forward, I'm the only person on the forum with a notably large collection of MO cartridges. :)
Regardless, unless anyone else comes forward, I'm the only person on the forum with a notably large collection of MO cartridges. :)
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: mrintel on June 26, 2010, 07:05:43 AM
Post by: mrintel on June 26, 2010, 07:05:43 AM
What's with the one with the blue label?
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: pentium on June 26, 2010, 01:36:07 PM
Post by: pentium on June 26, 2010, 01:36:07 PM
That is the Canon MO-502M cartridge. Save for shrink wrap it looks unused.
Once I get a working MO drive up I want to see if you truly can flip the cartridge over and use both sides of that one.
Once I get a working MO drive up I want to see if you truly can flip the cartridge over and use both sides of that one.
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: mrintel on June 27, 2010, 12:23:43 PM
Post by: mrintel on June 27, 2010, 12:23:43 PM
Nice! Can't wait to hear what happens!
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: Scutboy on June 28, 2010, 09:14:19 AM
Post by: Scutboy on June 28, 2010, 09:14:19 AM
Quote from: "pentium"
Regardless, unless anyone else comes forward, I'm the only person on the forum with a notably large collection of MO cartridges. :)
I probably have 10-12, but it's been ages since I've had a working MO drive.
I don't know that the labels on the carts actually call out the real contents, but I can pull them out and see what I have, if anyone is interested.
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: oneNeXT on June 28, 2010, 01:39:37 PM
Post by: oneNeXT on June 28, 2010, 01:39:37 PM
Please !
Title: Awwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Post by: gtnicol on July 03, 2010, 11:08:33 PM
Post by: gtnicol on July 03, 2010, 11:08:33 PM
I have a few working MO drives... if people want to get a dump of the contents of MO drives, I'd be happy to dump them.
FWIW. What I found was that linear optical encoder alignment, dry solder, and bad caps all play into the drives failing.
FWIW. What I found was that linear optical encoder alignment, dry solder, and bad caps all play into the drives failing.