Today, at around 3pm a tragedy struck - my beautiful Onkyo Hi-MD unit, MD-133 suffered a failure of display and all buttons. It loads minidisks and ejects them but shows no other signs of life 😢

I have an MZ-N920 that reads and plays discs, but when it comes to recording simply erases the disc.

I suspect this is because the mechanism that releases the recording head is not working (the device is almost silent when attempting to start recording while normally you'd hear the mechanism that allows the recording head to drop).

If anyone is familiar with this issue, is there a fix? I had a search but didn't find any exact matches. Thanks.