appreciate the thoughts, John. My question is: both drives? That’s why I bought a second DVI; to see if there was a problem with the first one.
Also, it seems to me, and I could be totally in left field, that the fact that it boots to the Microsoft screen off the disk (both of them do this) would indicate that the drive is able to read the disk. Also, upon reset of the M100 the disk drive is supposed to light up and read DVI BASIC off the disk. The drive light for either DVI does not do this. It seems to me (again, I’m not an expert) that this would indicate a problem with the communication from the M100 to the DVI. However, I have 2 cables and 2 M100’s and it doesn’t work with either. Randy > On Feb 17, 2018, at 11:50 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Disk drive broken? Loose belt maybe? Damaged or dirty head? > > Is there some way you can test it to gain some confidence? Say, in a pc? > > That’s what was wrong with Brian’s DVI in the end. > > I think there are some disk drive replacements around. Either you could buy a > new one or find a gadget that uses flash in place of disk. > > Floppy drives were maintenance issues back in the day, with old hardware I’m > surprised they ever work at all. > > — John.
