16 Aug
2013
16 Aug
'13
11:48 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 08/16/2013 09:40 AM, Tothwolf wrote:
It's in there, somewhere... Eventually I plan to recreate a full index for
this stuff, assuming Jim doesn't beat me to it ;)
The archives there go all the way back to the
first 8086 Deskpro. I've
used them to make the 360k diagnostics disks.
Doh - I didn't appreciate that there was more to it than what was in the
descriptions. I'll do some more digging. Having said that, the floppy functionality in the
machine seems to have
gone pop, and it's now issuing a diskette controller error on startup.
If it's the 765 itself, at least that's socketed on the controller
board, but it's too early to say if that's the likely problem or not.
I had similar issues with an 8086 Deskpro not that long ago. Both floppy
drives turned out to be completely gunked up and couldn't seek properly.
One other thing to be careful with is that these drives should not have
the diskette lock lever locked without a disk in them. They have a flimsy
interlock that is supposed to prevent turning the lever 90 degrees to lock
the drive without a disk in it, but it is so weak that it is easily forced
and broken. Once it breaks, you can't lock the disk at all. You may find
yours are already cracked. I've not yet come up with a way to repair
these, but maybe someone else has?