NetMD usb cradle problem? (MZ-N1)

[misran]

Hi All!

Nowadays I'm working around my MZ-N1 write head ribbon crack problem.

Altough the patch looks to be okay and Line-in record does work, I'm a bit confused with the usb recordings.

I uninstalled-reinstalled SonicStage and OpenMG drivers, but the case is the same:

With usb check-out, no transferr is made, better said, it takes no time, after 0% the 95% comes in a sec, and TOC Edit happens. The songs appear on the disk, but with 0 or 1 maybe 2 sec lengths. The title are okay.

I disassembled my unit (MZ-N1) and looked the heads movements while a check-out.

I didn't see any mechanical problem during check-out, no stuck, no nothing (as I expected, because Line-in works okay).

At this point, I see two possible reasons:

1., some circuit responsible for usb communication is dead on the units mainboard. I hope this is not the case, or this is cheap to service (I don't really believe this latter).

2., My cradle is out. I hope this is the (cheap?) case.

And for this latter, I have a question:

Does anyone have some information about the circuit of the cradle? Any service manual for that? Any description for the outputs?

Any comments and help is welcome!

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

misran

Edited September 1, 2005 by misran