27 Feb
2003
27 Feb
'03
6:27 p.m.
Aparently, the Drive 0: is bad. Replacing it with the
1: or an
Does the spindle motor run on this drive when you try to boot from it?
Does the LED come on?
IBM-branded Tandon drive from an IBM 5150 PC, it seems
to try to boot from
What have you done about the termination resistor pack (the 'odd coloured
IC' on the drive logic board)? The machine will not do the right things
if the last drive on the cable is not terminated.
Mostly. It is
standard MFM encoding (well, the TRS-80 can do FM (single
density) too, but the M3 and M4 at least expect the boot sector to be
double desnisty, and the standard OSes use double density (MFM) encoding
for the entire disk.
I would like to try to make an image from the disks I have, is there a
program that works under Linux with a standard floppy disk controller to
read disks and spit out .dsk files?