Re: [M100] DVI Disk Formatting

likely old caps in the drive or controller needing replacement On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 6:23 PM Randall Kindig wrote: > Funny you should ask. At Tandy Assembly (http://www.tandyassembly.com) > last year I found the same issue with my single-drive DVI. I can boot from > a disk fine, but cannot f

Re: [M100] DVI Disk Formatting

Funny you should ask. At Tandy Assembly (http://www.tandyassembly.com ) last year I found the same issue with my single-drive DVI. I can boot from a disk fine, but cannot format. It just crunches forever when trying to format, then eventually fails. I didn’t tr

[M100] DVI Disk Formatting

Hi all, Sorry to bombard the list with DVI related posts, but I am having an issue. So, I have two DVI’s one with two drives, one with one. At first I used the DVI with one drive, was able to format the boot disk, and make a copy. After that I am not able to format any additional disks. I just

Re: [M100] DVI

Hi all, I got my parts, and made one cable successfully. It looks pretty good, I was able to boot up the DVI, format and make a copy of the boot disk. When I went to format a second copy, it did not work. I tried three additional disks but got format errors. Hopefully nothing has gone wrong inside

Re: [M100] New M200 Video showing possible inherent fault

Thanks Gary. I got to wondering if the power switch placement was an afterthought. The three power switch traces are the only ones that rub against the plastic. They also go all the way around the PCB rather than 2” straight over to the ribbon connector, makes me think they added it last. Je

Re: [M100] New M200 Video showing possible inherent fault

Great video, Jeff! It's interesting how the machine design actually lets the circuit board traces rest on plastic like that. But it lasted 30+ years so I guess the design isn't *that* bad. Gary On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:35 AM Jeffrey Birt wrote: > Hi all, > > > > In this episode we look at ano