Manuel Bilderbeek schreef:
> Hi friends!
>
> I have a question about the Philips VY-0010 diskdrive. I recentely got one
> (for free! ;-), and when I made all the connections and switched everything
> on, the power LED went on, and after 2 seconds, it went off again...
>
> So I went to an electronics-freak... We thought it was in the power supply,
> and we found that one big capacitor was broken. We replaced it, and still the
> fuse blowed when turning the drive on. After 2 weeks of searching we decided
> to replace the 'voltage-regulators' (I hope that's the correct English
> translation of the Dutch word 'spanningsregelaars'). And YES! The fuse didn't
> blow!
>
> So now I connected the drive again to an MSX, and indeed, I could load
> programs from disk. But one strange thing is happening: when I don't put a
> disk in the drive, the drive tries reading. You can hear it spinning and you
> hear the drivehead moving. Also the BUSY LED is lit. But it won't stop! I
> should get a "Disk offline" error, shouldn't I? But the computer waits and
> waits... Only when I turn off the drive, the computer reports "Disk offline".
> When I then insert a disk, I can use it normally. But this whole thing is
> rather irritating! I now cannot boot without a disk in the drive... (unless I
> turn the drive off...)
>
> Does anyone know what causes this strange effect? (And how I can solve it...
> Is it a hardware failure?)
>
> Grtjs, Manuel
>
No , it's not an error , but the bios software of the VY0010 is rather slow.
it can take till 30 sec. before you get a "disk of line" or your msx stop's
booting.
a simpel solution : replace the disk bios with a bios from the NMS8250 or 8280
grts, Erik
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