Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-04-17 Thread Chris Kmiec
gt; around their legs. >>>>> >>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/Dz5R1rGRnzYAXy9J2 >>>>> >>>>> I forget if I tried swapping controller boards and head assemblies >>>>> around with another good drive to see if the problem is all i

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-04-06 Thread Gregory McGill
hotos.app.goo.gl/Dz5R1rGRnzYAXy9J2 >>>> >>>> I forget if I tried swapping controller boards and head assemblies >>>> around with another good drive to see if the problem is all in the drive >>>> board or of there is also a problem in the controller board. &

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-04-06 Thread Chris Kmiec
r board. >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 11:39 PM Fugu ME100 wrote: >>> >>>> I would check all the caps on the board just to make sure. >>>> >>>> Which caps failed? Quite amazing it worked unless they ate through the >>>> wr

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-27 Thread Brian White
gt;> Which caps failed? Quite amazing it worked unless they ate through the >>> write control line. >>> >>> From: M100 on behalf of Chris Kmiec >>> >>> Reply-To: >>> Date: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:33 PM >>> To: >>> Subject: Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI >>> >>> Just an update - took it apart, and found two caps on the bottom board >>> that spilled their guts and corroded a good area. Surprised it works at >>> all! I'll be attempting to fix it, but did get an "approved" Panasonic >>> drive from eBay just in case. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-27 Thread Chris Kmiec
Which caps failed? Quite amazing it worked unless they ate through the >> write control line. >> >> From: M100 on behalf of Chris Kmiec < >> ckmi...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: >> Date: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:33 PM >> To: >> Subject: Re:

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-19 Thread Brian White
re. > > Which caps failed? Quite amazing it worked unless they ate through the > write control line. > > From: M100 on behalf of Chris Kmiec < > ckmi...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: > Date: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:33 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [M100] Can't format a

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-19 Thread Fugu ME100
tchin100.com>> Date: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:33 PM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Subject: Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI Just an update - took it apart, and found two caps on the bottom board that spilled their guts and corroded a good area. Surprised it works at al

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-19 Thread Chris Kmiec
Just an update - took it apart, and found two caps on the bottom board that spilled their guts and corroded a good area. Surprised it works at all! I'll be attempting to fix it, but did get an "approved" Panasonic drive from eBay just in case. Chris On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Jonathan Yuen

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-18 Thread Jonathan Yuen
Do you have a demagnitizer thing that really erases everything on a diskette? I remember having to use them sometimes if the 'format' program tries to use what is already on the disk. I have one floating around here that I made from an old transformer, but I know there used to be these dev

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-17 Thread Fugu ME100
ormat, to read the disk it might be good enough. From: M100 mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com>> on behalf of Chris Kmiec mailto:ckmi...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Date: Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 12:45 PM To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Sub

Re: [M100] Can't format a disk with DVI

2018-03-17 Thread Chris Kmiec
I've cleaned everything, still a no go. I give up for today. On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Chris Kmiec wrote: > Trying to make a copy of my system disk. I've tried formatting 6 different > disks, all different manufacturers, all double density. It starts the > process, starts flashing Formatt