EME-150 A Speed & alignment adjustment

[Searchin2010]

Hello,
Having had an Amstrad CPC6128 growing up; I'm now back into it as a hobby.
I have recently purchased an early 6128 with an EME-150 A, FDD.
After replacing the belt cleaning the head and lubricating the rails and worm drive, it loaded discs for a few tries but now doesn't. All I'm getting is "read fail" I've tried with system discs and copies that work fine on my 664.
I think it may be require speed calibration and alignment but I can't find any you tube clips or tutorials for the EME-150 A floppy disk drive.

Does anyone have any insight they could share please? Any help appreciated.

Here is what it looks like:
https://youtube.com/shorts/yMxBOQ9V0UI?feature=share

[MoteroV4]

Hello, you can try the program "Dsktest.dsk" or better "cdt" if the drive not read. Go to option 5, wait a few seconds and it will show the RPM. Adjust the motor screw very slightly, with a flat screwdriver, to the right or left and measure again until you get 300.00 RPM +-3.0 rpm.

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[Searchin2010]

Hello, you can try the program "Dsktest.dsk" or better "cdt" if the drive not read. Go to option 5, wait a few seconds and it will show the RPM. Adjust the motor screw very slightly, with ...

Thanks for taking the time to help me out, MoteroV4
a couple of questions:
to run that file, will I need to get some sort of external gotek type solution? If so can you direct me to the part of this place I can find more info?
secondly, the motor in my FDD doesn't look like yours. Is the speed adjustment the screw on mine?

Ok, I haven't figured out how to attach photos yet; but you can see in the video link above. 

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[MoteroV4]

Hello, you can try the program "Dsktest.dsk" or better "cdt" if the drive not read. Go to option 5, wait a few seconds and it will show the RPM. Adjust the motor screw very slightly, with ...

Thanks for taking the time to help me out, MoteroV4
a couple of questions:
to run that file, will I need to get some sort of external gotek type solution? If so can you direct me to the part of this place I can find more info?
secondly, the motor in my FDD doesn't look like yours. Is the speed adjustment the screw on mine?

Ok, I haven't figured out how to attach photos yet; but you can see in the video link above. 

I couldn't see your video yesterday because it was set to private.
This model is different and regulates the motor speed with the VR201 potentiometer on the circuit board.

I don't have Gotek on CPC. Instead I put a 3.5" drive as unit B (there are tutorials) and another one on a old PC, with a native connector other than USB. That way I can write discs and make transfers on the CPC from 3.5" to 3" and vice versa. I make the 3.5" 40 tracks 180KB disc using CPCDiskXP under Windows from a .dsk image.

But maybe the quickest way to load now for you, would be to play the CDT from a PC with Winape or RVM, connect a cable from the speaker output of the PC to the Tape din connector of the CPC6128.

[Bryce]

Hello,
Having had an Amstrad CPC6128 growing up; I'm now back into it as a hobby.
I have recently purchased an early 6128 with an EME-150 A, FDD.
After replacing the belt cleaning the head and lubricating the rails and worm drive, it loaded discs for a few tries but now doesn't. All I'm getting is "read fail" I've tried with system discs and copies that work fine on my 664.
I think it may be require speed calibration and alignment but I can't find any you tube clips or tutorials for the EME-150 A floppy disk drive.

Does anyone have any insight they could share please? Any help appreciated.

Here is what it looks like:
https://youtube.com/shorts/yMxBOQ9V0UI?feature=share

Unfortunately, the EME-150A is more troublesome than all other CPC drive models. It's known to often have "wear and tear" issues with the head mechanism, that are sadly not repairable. I would suggest using your money to buy one of the other CPC drive versions, if you can find one on ebay.

Bryce.