+videofx Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 Here you go its not present. You can see in the photo that whoever sold me the drive cut the wires and probably left the part just laying in the drive cabinet. In my second drive you can see the lactate and everything is as it should be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 OK at least the title mystery is solved then! Edit: I presume then it's wired for one of write always allowed, or always protected then. Black piece either to protect the loose wires from shorting, or part of the hack for always write or always protect... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+videofx Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 Yup, what do those wires do and why do they seem to connect to a plastic part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 the wires went to the emitter/detector pair for the write protect/not protect notch of the disk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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