8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
5:47 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Wouter de Waal wrote:
Hi again
I for one ran an Apple ][ (clone) with two floppies and a monitor
on top of the box, for a long long time, and the only problems
I had was when the one-shots in the drive (how's that for a (belated)
thread merge? :-) drifted so far that disks from one drive wouldn't
read on the other.
And yes, I still have the system, and it still reads the disks.
I owe Tony an apology:
You might also look for and try the FDCs that use the 37C65 chip by WD
and others. Also the NS8473 cards.
- don
Why suspect the FDC? This soulds like nothing more
than a shorted or
leaky keyswitch. Have yoy taken the keyboard apart to check for this yet.
I found the correct pins for "Enter" and the floppy tries to
read the disk... I made a disk on the peecee but I since found out
that peecees can't make SD disks... time to go find an old XT
disk controller (I have a few :-) and gippo it to read and write
SD.
Seeya
Wouter in digest mode