sescoscuba Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 hi all, where is possible to find and try the test application to do test mode for minidisc? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year at all Sergio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 hi all, where is possible to find and try the test application to do test mode for minidisc? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year at all Sergio You won't find it. The proper (indeed almost the only) way to get into service mode is by button pressing. For many units, you can solder a bridge together, but this is rather a pain, don't you think? What unit are we talking here? What are you trying to adjust? Stephen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 Hi Stephen, i ve buy an mz nh1 as not working, but using md simple burner it was partially relive. He read the first track, later block. I suspect is a software error. Best regards Happy New Year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 (edited) Trying to fix a Hi-MD unit without all the gear is almost impossible. In particular there is an alignment disk you need (in fact 2, one for regular disks, one for 1GB disks). I don't have any. Without it if you (blindly) follow the directions in the service manual YOU WILL make the machine into something useless. I suspect that it (the disk) depends on some borderline recorded material to test the tolerances on the alignment, which is quite a standard method generally (nothing to do with MD at all). I have spent quite some time carefully avoiding turning my MZ-RH910 into an expensive block of useless plastic, and I am still no closer to fixing the fault which it has had from the beginning. Sorry to be so negative. Stephen Update: what a coincidence.... today's the day I finally figured out how to adjust HiMD. Several posts attest to this. Edited January 2, 2011 by sfbp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Hi Stephen, Thank you for you re replay. Where i can find "how to adjust HiMD". I m a new reader and i ve some problem to find it. Best regards sergio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Patience, Sergio. As they say, Rome wasn't built in 1 day. I plan to write a fairly long description of what to do about Laser Power Adjustment, including a survey of the machines and manuals I can actually get my hands on (here). Would you like to start by describing your problem in detail, please? Don't worry about the language. Try to make a list (sequence) of things that you try and what happens. One problem - I have never touched an NH1. But I think first you need to tell us what it does do, and what it doesn't. It will help a lot if you have another HiMD machine that DOES work. No rush, just try to explain what you do and what you see in very simple terms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hi Stephen, sorry for delay. I ve try my mz nh1; when i insert a md, he " think " a lot of time, later is all ok, some problem changin manually the track; he " think " for 10 second, from 3 track to infinite. Connect to usb, with simple burner is fast. Please, ask me what you think i must do :-) Thanks a lot, sorry for my bad english best regards sergio PS, i ve some md sharp wha aren't in the MiniDisc Equipment Browser and some manual, are you interest to receive photos of the object? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Sounds like adjustment needed, to me. "Thinking" on HiMD is often because "stuff" happens when SonicStage needs to read all tracks that got deleted from the unit. In order to rectify DRM. Does it do this with a new disk? Yes, on the info. But I don't control the browser, it's at another site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hi Stephen; Does it do this with a new disk? What means, register a blank disk with the nh1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 I mean, if you take a brand new disk (not a re-used one with tracks removed), does it hang up when you first put it in? The most likely thing is that the laser power needs adjusting. However this is very difficult without measuring equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Hi, Stephen; i ve try. Blank md, pass 2 / 3 second later blank disc. THANKS Sergio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 OK we're not out of the wood yet. That's the symptom I had too. It worked fine. The critical thing is the writing of the TOC. Now you need to do some very simple tests with writing. By "simple" I mean you have be very strict and ONLY do one thing at a time. First test: take the NEW disk you tried (was it 80m or 1GB?) and use the buttons on the unit and/or remote to FORMAT the disk. DO NOT connect to USB, please. Please tell me how that goes. Don't try any disk EXCEPT the one that was brand new. BTW I am assuming that you can still read (play) disks that have been made a long time, it is only the new one(s) which causes a problem. You must tell me if this is not true. Tell me how that works. I will have some more test when you tell me the result. Please don't try anything else... yet. It will get way too confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Hi Stephen, i ve do, a flashing NO :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 It fails? (sorry we have some little difficulties here with language) Please PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sescoscuba Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 It fails? (sorry we have some little difficulties here with language) Please PM me. Yes, fails, show me a flashing NO . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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