Well, I bought the thing a new floppy drive, connected pins 33 and 34 of the
main board (where it connects to the cable) with a jumper, connected it...
nothing. It still complains about "disk offline". Any ideas, anyone?
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From: Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCART to composite
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:19:00 +0000
About the disk drive:
AFAIK, 8250 drives don't have a rubber belt. The rubber belt problem occurs
with the 8235/8245 and the turbo R models.
You can easily replace a 8250 drive with a standard PC disk drive. The only
modification you need, is to place a jumper over pin 33 and 34 of the second
drive connector on the main board. Pin 33 is ground and pin 34 is /RDY, the
ready signal, a signal that modern PC drives no longer have. Connecting the
pins will tell the 8250 that the drive is always ready, the 8250 DiskROM has
no problems with that.
Bye,
Maarten
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